I think you misread the post.

Car Support has not been bought by D&M. All the technology, IP and the development team have been acquired and indeed we have officially worked for DNNA since Monday.

Losing support was a fairly predictable thing. With a userbase of 4000, vs. somewhere between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 for the rest of Rio, and with all units out of warranty it's simply not practical to integrate the car player into the new DNNA support organisation. I have been planning for this for some months and in practice there should be no interruption to support at all - it just won't be provided by DNNA or SONICblue.

You can send your player in for repair by SONICblue Car Support right up to May 31st. They will be paying Rob to work through June to clear any repairs that have already arrived. After that date SONICblue will not accept any more support enquiries - however, as I said, they only practical difference I think you'll notice will be a change of support email address. I'm not going to expand on this until everything is finalised, but I think it's fairly obvious what is going to happen.

This announcement has nothing to do with software development. I'm sure there will be no official car player development, as has been the case for the last two years. I don't see this affecting our actual release intentions in any way.

As for SONICblue, no, they certainly will not be around any more. They have sold almost all of their assets so they can quietly go Chapter 7.

I should point out, however, that I am certainly NOT speaking on behalf of SONICblue and this message is my interpretation of the situation. I haven't worked for SONICblue in almost a week after all

Rob