Iomega Enhances Iomega Super DVD Drives with Sonic MyDVD v6

Business Wire, Feb 28, 2005

NOVATO, Calif. -- Sonic Solutions(R) (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, and Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage, today announced that Sonic's MyDVD(R) v6 software will begin shipping immediately with the newly announced Iomega Super DVD Writer 16x16 Dual-Format USB 2.0 Drive, bringing new features and ease of use to Iomega Super DVD drive customers.

Sonic MyDVD v6 is an OEM edition of the award-winning Sonic MyDVD Studio(TM) v6 application, which PC Magazine recently called "the easiest-to-use DVD-creation package we've tested" ("Best of the Year," Dec. 28, 2004).

Sonic MyDVD v6 adds many important new features to enhance the DVD creation experience for Iomega customers, both for video and slideshow creation:

--Free-form or automatic menu button layout

--Direct picture capture from digital cameras that are Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) compliant (supported on Windows XP & MCE operating systems)

--Animated menus

--Support for MPEG-4 and DivX(R) video files

--True anamorphic 16:9 support for wide-screen movie authoring

--Improved photo slideshow creation with drag-and-drop assembly and up to 999 photos per slideshow

With MyDVD v6, Iomega Super DVD users can customize their video creations with new built-in styles and over 100 new transitions. In addition, a new Disc Importer feature helps edit the contents of existing DVDs created by non-Sonic products.

Existing owners of Iomega Super DVD Drives with MyDVD 5 may upgrade to MyDVD v6 at www.sonic.com/go/iomega at discount pricing.

"We're delighted to be working with Sonic to deliver to our customers the best in easy-to-use DVD-authoring solutions," said Brad Nelson, product general manager, consumer products, Iomega Corporation. "Owners of Iomega storage products know they can expect highly dependable, easy-to-use solutions that deliver a great user experience. By combining the latest version of Sonic MyDVD with our new double-layer Super DVD drive, Iomega is once again bringing the best DVD total solution to our customers."

"Iomega's external Super DVD drives have set the standard for versatility and simplicity when it comes to handling the current DVD disc formats," said Mark Ely, senior vice-president of corporate strategy for Sonic Solutions. "We're pleased to expand our OEM relationship to include MyDVD 6 software with all of its outstanding features, and we look forward to enabling Iomega's customers with this award-winning new product."

Compatibility

Sonic MyDVD v6 software for the Iomega Super DVD drive is compatible with computers running Windows(R) 98SE/98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP (Home/Pro/MCE). Supported capture devices include DV and Digital8 camcorders via IEEE-1394/FireWire/i.Link, MPEG capture devices, analog capture devices, and DirectShow-compliant capture devices.

About Iomega Super DVD Drives

Designed for the evolving needs of home and small business users and supporting the new 8.5 GB double-layer (DL) DVD R recording standard, the Iomega Super DVD Writer 16x16 Dual-Format USB 2.0 Drive gives consumers an outstanding tool for managing videos, data, music and photos.

For video enthusiasts, the new Iomega(R) Super DVD QuikTouch(TM) Video Burner 16x Dual-Format USB 2.0 Drive combines a DVD recorder with a video capture card. The result is a versatile desktop drive that can accept data from either a PC or a video source, burning single- or double-layer video DVDs, VCDs (Video CDs), and conventional data DVDs and CDs.

Both drives ship with a software collection that helps users clearly and easily perform advanced automatic backup, video editing, DVD authoring, and photo and music management.

About Sonic MyDVD

Sonic MyDVD is the leading PC application for consumer DVD creation. With its ability to record analog and digital video (DV) in real-time into MPEG-2 for DVD, MyDVD is the fastest and easiest way to share treasured video memories with friends and family on DVD discs, from wedding videos to children's birthday parties and other special events.

Sonic MyDVD makes it easy to burn high-quality DVDs with integrated video editing, automatic scene detection, motion-video menus, animated buttons and slideshows with transitions and soundtracks. Sonic MyDVD also features optimized Direct-to-DVD(TM) recording which allows users, in just a few clicks, to record their content directly to DVD from a video source connected to the computer's video input. Sonic MyDVD is also OpenDVD(R)-compliant, enabling previously burned DVDs to be opened, re-edited, updated with new video and photo content and re-burned to DVD and CD recordable/re-writable media. This enables an entirely new generation of DVD and CD applications, such as video diaries, compilations of family events, up-to-the-minute, customized sales presentations, and more.

About Iomega

Iomega Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value storage solutions to help people protect, secure, capture and share their valuable digital information. Iomega's award-winning storage products include the new Iomega(R) REV(TM) 35GB drive, popular Zip(R) 100MB, 250MB and 750MB drives; high-performance Iomega External Hard drives; Iomega Mini USB drives and Micro Mini(TM) USB drives; Iomega external CD-RW drives; Iomega Super DVD drives and the QuikTouch(TM) Video Burner; and Iomega floppy USB-powered drives. Iomega simplifies data protection and sharing at home and in the workplace with Iomega Automatic Backup software, Iomega Sync software, HotBurn(R) CD-recording software, and Active Disk(TM) technology. For networks, Iomega NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1.6TB. For unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access, Iomega offers iStorage(TM) secure online storage. Iomega also offers businesses and consumers a comprehensive data recovery services solution for recovering lost data due to hardware failure, file corruption or media damage. The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web at www.iomega.com.