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Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) enables the creation, management, and enjoyment of digital media content through its Hollywood to Home™ products, services, and technologies. Sonic's products range from the advanced authoring systems used to produce Hollywood DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles to the award-winning Roxio-branded photo, video, music, and digital-media management applications. Sonic's patented technologies and AuthorScript® media engine are relied upon by leading technology firms to define rich media experiences on a wide array of consumer electronics, mobile devices, set-top players, retail kiosks, and PCs. Always an innovator, Sonic has taken a leading role in helping professional and consumer markets make the successful transition to the new high-definition media formats and, through the Qflix™ platform, Sonic is defining new models for the digital distribution of Hollywood entertainment. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.
Sonic is comprised of three business units, each focused on serving the unique needs of distinctive market segments.
Consumer Products Group (Roxio)
Sonic's Consumer Products Group develops a range of award-winning digital media creation, management, preservation, sharing, and enjoyment applications for home and business users under the Roxio brand. Roxio products and services offer the perfect blend of ease and power, enabling consumers to achieve professional results from their photo, video, and music projects with minimal effort. Roxio's flagship applications, Easy Media Creator for the PC and Toast for the Apple Macintosh, are the best-selling products in their respective categories in North American retail. In additional to distributing its products through a global network of major retailers, Roxio products are available at leading online etailers, direct from Roxio.com, and are bundled with PCs from top-tier vendors including Dell, HP, Sony, and Fujitsu, as well as with a range of after-market drives and consumer electronic devices.
 Key Products
Easy Media Creator® - Combines Roxio's complete line of next-generation photo, video, music, burning, and authoring applications into a full-integrated and comprehensive digital media suite.
Toast® - The Industry-leading disc burning and media management software that let’s consumers do more with their Mac.
MyDVD™ - The world’s first consumer DVD creation software, now with advanced functionality quickly turning photos, slideshows, and home movies into stunning multi-media DVDs.
Backup MyPC® - An easy-to-use data protection and disaster recovery solution that gives consumers piece of mind knowing their critical files – from family photos to tax records – are safely protected on a broad range of range of media and removable storage devices.
DVDit® - A Professional-level DVD authoring solution for video professionals and enthusiasts that enables the creation of sophisticated high-definition Blu-ray titles.
RecordNow® - The easiest way to manage, edit and burn your digital audio collection, RecordNow features fast MP3 encoding, automatic file retagging, waveform editing, and much more.
BackOnTrack™ - The easiest way to instantly recover from PC system failures and restore precious data, including media files from corruption, virus infection, and faulty software installations.
PhotoSuite® - Offering the perfect blend of automated photo editing features and professional-level controls, PhotoSuite gives consumers the power to create and share one-of-a-kind photo projects, manage massive photo libraries and archive their digital memories to CD and DVD.
PhotoShow™ - A comprehensive multimedia storytelling platform and online community that enables consumers to quickly and easily turn personal photos and video clips into entertaining shows that can be enjoyed and shared on PCs, TVs, handhelds, or published to popular social media sites.
CinePlayer™ - With an emphasis on picture and sound quality, CinePlayer delivers a truly cinematic DVD and Video CD playback experience on the PC.
Professional Products Group
Sonic's Professional Products Group (PPG) develops professional authoring systems used in the release of a wide variety of video entertainment including major motion pictures on DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, HD DVD and Blu-ray disc. Sonic's world-renowned Scenarist® authoring and CineVision™ video and audio encoding systems are intended for highly skilled professional content creation facilities including high-end authoring and design houses, major motion picture studios, and disc replicators. Sonic's Professional Products Group takes a leading role and is actively involved in the development and implementation of new entertainment standards and formats. PPG uses its in-depth understanding of emerging technologies to develop first-to-market solutions for Hollywood and mass consumer release formats such as CD and DVD. Core technologies developed for the professional market play a key role in Sonic's "Hollywood to Home" strategy and are used by Sonic's Advanced Technology Group and Consumer Products Group (Roxio) as the underlying technology for leading-edge applications for consumers and technology partners.
Key Products
Scenarist® - Scenarist is the first word in Hollywood-proven content authoring for DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and HD DVD. Providing a comprehensive, professional authoring solution for the next generation in optical media, Scenarist delivers unrivaled power and control for both standard and advanced interactive content.
CineVision™ - Sonic CineVision is the ultimate encoding solution for Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, featuring comprehensive codec support, stunning cinematic-quality encoding, and an exclusive professional toolset to maximize productivity while delivering stunning results.
Scenarist® Publisher™ - Based on the world-standard Scenarist authoring engine, Scenarist Publisher introduces a unique “author once, publish many” approach that automates the authoring workflow. Leveraging authoring times across multiple titles, Publisher vastly increases productivity while drastically reducing QC requirements.
ROM Formatter - ROM Formatter allows users to pre-master content for dual-layer DVD-ROMs and offers advanced control for data layout.
Advanced Technology Group
Sonic's Advanced Technology Group develops digital media technologies and playback and recording engines that are licensed by leading tech firms such as Broadcom, GE Medical, Microsoft, Adobe, Scientific Atlanta, and Sony to create rich media experiences on a broad range of consumer electronics, mobile devices, set-top players, retail kiosks and PCs. Based on the world's most widely tested and deployed media burning engine, AuthorScript® and CinePlayer™ Navigator offer proven reliability, compatibility, and support for both standard and high-definition optical media. Sonic's Advanced Technology Group is also responsible for the development of Qflix, which provides a comprehensive technology platform and licensing and certification program for the electronic sell-through of video content that can be burned to DVD.
Key Products
AuthorScript® - A comprehensive software toolkit for 3rd party PC developers and CE manufacturers, AuthorScript makes it easy to add a broad range of advanced digital media conversion, recording, and formatting capabilities to virtually any hardware or software solution. Available as a series of software development kits (SDKs), AuthorScript is an extremely adaptable technology that can be used to power consumer electronics, PCs, kiosks, automatic entertainment systems and game consoles.
CinePlayer™ Navigator - Delivers comprehensive DVD, HD DVD and BD playback and navigation to a broad range of systems. Based on the same technology trusted by Hollywood studios, CinePlayer is a robust, software-based DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray playback engine that delivers proven playback compatibility on a variety of operating systems and embedded environments. CinePlayer leverages Sonic’s exceptional knowledge, expertise, and intellectual property in Optical Disc Format Specifications to bring exceptional digital media playback experiences to consumer electronics products.
The Qflix™ program - Offers a new means for content owners to release titles for custom production and sale over the Internet while maintaining the same level of copy protection used on commercially mass-produced DVDs. Sonic's Qflix program provides essential technology and IP for both the professional and consumer market. For professional and enterprise manufacturing of DVDs "on demand," the Qflix program allows production facilities to reduce the cost of carrying physical inventory while simultaneously offering extensive catalogs of content. The program also enables retailers to broaden the number of movies by augmenting physical product with on-demand DVD creation kiosks in their stores. For consumers, the Qflix program provides a long-awaited downloading and burning solution for movies and premium video content in computers and consumer electronic devices such as set-top boxes, networked DVD recorders, and DVRs.
Company Details
Sonic's headquarters are located in Marin County, California. The company's international sales and distribution network spans more than 40 countries, with headquarters for Europe in London, England, and Pacific Rim in Tokyo, Japan. Independent distributors provide sales and support throughout Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. The company has approximately 600 employees worldwide and is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol SNIC.
Sonic distributes its software globally through strategic partnerships with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), retail distributors and directly over the Internet. Sonic’s Roxio division sells its products through major retailers including Best Buy, CompUSA and Staples; Internet and direct marketers such as Amazon.com and CDW; membership warehouses such as Costco and Sam’s Club; and mass merchants Target and Walmart.
Sonic Solutions, 101 Rowland Way, Novato, CA 94945
Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, 455 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050
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