Sonic Solutions' DVDit! Is Bundled With Sony's VAIO PC Line; Sony Becomes First PC Manufacturer to Offer Complete Video Capture, Editing and DVD Publishing on a PC!

Business Wire, May 23, 2000

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

NOVATO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000

Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC) announced today that electronics giant Sony Corporation has decided to bundle Sonic's DVDit! with its VAIO PC lines.

Sony will bundle Sonic DVDit! LE with its latest line of powerful VAIO(TM) desktop computers in Japan and around the globe. With the inclusion of DVDit!, Sony is the first PC manufacturer to provide end-to-end video capture, editing and publishing on DVD on a consumer-level PC.

"We're extremely pleased that Sony is including DVDit! with VAIO," said Bob Doris, President of Sonic. "With the combination of VAIO and DVDit!, Sony will continue to lead the industry, enabling consumers to create their own interactive videos and entertainment," said Koki D. Terui, Sonic's Vice President of Pacific Rim Operations.

Sony unveiled the new Vaio products last week in Tokyo and announced that it aims to double shipments of its popular personal computers in the current fiscal year. The new Vaio models are rich with multimedia capabilities such as built-in digital cameras, and Memory Stick devices that allow video and audio files to be easily moved between video cameras and the Vaio. Sonic DVDit! LE will be bundled with the Vaio PCV-R73K and PCV-R63K series, allowing users to edit DV video from their camcorders and, using Sonic DVDit!, author and publish their own videos on DVD. The new Vaio series will begin shipping on June 10 in Japan.

The DVD-Video format is the fastest growing consumer electronics format in history. With over 8 million DVD set-top players and over 30 million DVD-equipped PCs in the market today, DVD is rapidly replacing tape as the video publishing format of choice for video professionals and video enthusiasts.

With Sonic DVDit!, VAIO users can drag and drop their DV video files into the DVDit! authoring application and then build menus and interactivity. Once authoring is complete, DVDit! uses Sony's high-speed DV-to-MPEG-2 video transcoder to convert source DV content to high-quality MPEG-2 video for DVD. DVDit! then records the final DVD content to CD-R or other removable media for playback on PCs. DVDit! can also directly write to DVD-R for discs that play in set-top consumer DVD players.

About Sonic DVDit!

Sonic DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD formatting technology, DVDit! gives video professionals, graphic designers, artists and video enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PC. DVDit! is available in three editions: LE ("Limited Edition") -- designed for bundling with compatible products; SE ("Standard Edition") -- including comprehensive support of the DVD feature set; and PE ("Professional Edition," available in June 2000) -- designed to address the needs of professional DVD publishers.

DVDit! is compatible with AVI and QuickTime video files, so that virtually any video content -- from DV to D1 -- can be converted into a DVDit! project. With an intuitive interface, building DVD titles is as easy as selecting a menu background and then dragging and dropping an AVI, QuickTime or MPEG-2 video file into DVD. DVDit! automatically builds buttons and interactivity, multiplexes and formats content, and records to CD-R or DVD-R for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or DVD-equipped PCs.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC)

Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing and interactive, streaming video on the Internet. Sonic DVDit! (http://www.dvdit.com) is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at consumers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Streaming DVD is the first interactive technology based on DVD for content distribution over the Internet. Sonic DVD Creator and DVD Fusion are the most widely used systems for professional DVD publishing, and are installed worldwide at major studios, post production facilities and in corporate marketing departments. SonicStudio HD is the leading digital workstation for preparing audio for release on CD and the first for creating content for the new DVD-Audio format. Sonic is also a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

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