I am the proud owner of #40104260.

Interesting. If I read this correctly, it says "manufactured in April 2001, player #4260". Depending on how you read an earlier post by Rob, there are either about 3000 or about 4000 empegs/Rios total.

Maybe the whole EOL announcement was just a marketing trick to get these babies to sell like hot bread while they continue to manufacture them as fast as they can? I wish.

Borislav