Sonic Solutions and Pioneer Bring Affordable DVD Recording to Consumers and Professionals

Business Wire, Nov 13, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

COMDEX Fall 2000

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000

Pioneer's New DVD-R/RW Devices Supported By Sonic's Award-winning

DVDit!(TM) and MyDVD(TM) Software

Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC) announced at this week's COMDEX show that it has integrated support for Pioneer's new DVD recording devices into Sonic's award-winning DVDit! and MyDVD authoring applications. Expected to ship in early 2001, Pioneer's new DVD-R/RW recorders will enable consumers and multimedia professionals to record both DVD-compatible DVD-R and DVD-RW media as well as CD-compatible CD-R and CD-RW media on a single drive. Sonic's MyDVD and DVDit! software make it possible for consumers to publish their favorite videos, Internet video clips and corporate presentations on DVD-RW discs which can be played on multimedia PCs and DVD set-top players everywhere.

"Sonic continues to expand the DVD authoring and recording market, and Sonic MyDVD and DVDit! deliver powerful and easy DVD authoring to consumers and professionals alike," said Andy Parsons, Sr. VP of Product Development for Pioneer New Media Technologies. "Pioneer is enthusiastic to collaborate with Sonic -- together, we make it possible for consumers to record and create their own DVD videos at home for the first time."

"Pioneer's new DVD-R/RW recorders, with their expected low price and high degree of compatibility with existing DVD-Video players and DVD-ROM readers, help make DVD publishing a reality for anyone who wants to see their multimedia and video content on DVD," said Mark Ely, Vice President of Business Development at Sonic Solutions. "Sonic is delighted to be working with Pioneer on such an important new product."

About Sonic MyDVD

The first DVD authoring application for consumers, MyDVD makes it easy to capture "your life on DVD." With its remarkably friendly user interface and intuitive authoring, MyDVD makes it possible for home video enthusiasts to take video, music, digital photos, and scanned artwork and create their own interactive movies. Users can record their finished DVD projects to low-cost DVD-RW/CD-RW Pioneer devices.

About Sonic DVDit!

Sonic DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple and straightforward user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD formatting technology, DVDit! gives multimedia and video professionals, graphic designers, artists and video enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PC.

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 video file. DVDit! automatically builds buttons and interactivity, multiplexes and formats content and records to CD-R or DVD-R/RW for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or DVD-equipped PCs.

About Pioneer New Media Technologies

Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. is dedicated to bringing the very best of leading-edge technology to market. Pioneer invented the world's first DVD-R drives, the first multiple-disc CD-ROM changer and offered the first multifunction optical drive capable of reading and writing to both M-O and WORM. The optical division's products include DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-ROM drives, DVD/CD library systems, M-O/ WORM optical drives and media, and DVD-R and DVD-RW media for a wide range of storage solutions in the education, government, legal, banking, medical, insurance, finance, industrial and general business markets. The company is also a leading supplier of DVD-ROM drives to the majority of first tier OEM PC manufacturers. For more information, contact Pioneer New Media Technologies, Inc. at 2265 E. 220th Street, Long Beach, California 90810; phone (310) 952-2111 or (800) 444-6784; URL: www.pioneerusa.com.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC)

Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing. Sonic DVDit! (http://www.dvdit.com) is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at videographers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Sonic MyDVD is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD". Sonic DVD Creator(R) and Sonic DVD Fusion(R) 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(TM) 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.

The above paragraphs of this press release contain forward looking statements that are based upon current expectations. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties including, among others, the timely introduction and acceptance of new products, costs associated with new product introductions, the transition of products to new hardware configurations and platforms and other factors, including those discussed in the Company's annual and quarterly reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release should be read in conjunction with the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly report on Form 10-Q on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which contain a more detailed discussion of the Company's business including risks and uncertainties that may affect future results.