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BROADFIELD DISTRIBUTING, INC. SELECTS SONIC DVDit!™ TO EXPAND CONSUMER MARKET FOR DVD

LEADING VIDEO DISTRIBUTOR BRINGS DVDIT! TO CORPORATE AND CONSUMER MARKET

Marin County, California (March 7, 2000) - Sonic Solutions announced today that Broadfield Distributing, a leading wholesaler of video and camcorder accessories in the U.S., will carry the Sonic DVDit! line of products in the United States. Through its network of more than 3,000 resellers, its highly successful video and audio products e-commerce site at www.Videoguys.comÙ and its catalog The Electronic Mailbox, Broadfield Distributing will deliver DVDit! to customers eager to begin authoring their own DVDs.

"An affordable and easy-to-use DVD solution is finally here," said Gary Bettan, Vice President of Marketing at Broadfield Distributing, Inc. "Sonic DVDit! provides us the opportunity to offer our dealers and customers a DVD solution that is a perfect fit for their needs - professional quality, incredibly easy to use, and very affordable. Customers have been calling to purchase DVDit! even before we received our first units!"

Broadfield Distributing has 20 years of experience in supplying audio and video solutions to home and corporate users throughout North America. The firm serves a wide variety of users including corporate offices, religious organizations, production facilities, wedding and event videographers, classrooms and home video enthusiasts. In addition to the Sonic DVDit! line of products, Broadfield Distributing offers numerous audio/video products from leading manufacturers such as Matrox, Fast, DPS, Digital Origin, Pinnacle, Canopus, Media 100, Newtek, ICE, Medea, Ulead, Artel, and many more. Broadfield will handle DVDit! SE as a standalone application as well as DVDit! LE to SE upgrades for users of MatroxÌs popular new RT 2000 video system.

"Broadfield Distributing has long been recognized as one of the leading wholesalers in the United States," said Mary Sauer, Senior Vice-President of Business Development at Sonic Solutions. "With their deep understanding of the corporate and industrial video market, Broadfield immediately recognized the importance of adding DVD publishing to their strong line-up of video products. We look forward to working with Broadfield as the video market adopts DVD as the standard publishing format for interactive video."

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 multiplexing technology, DVDit! gives video professionals, graphic designers, artists and video enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PC.

DVDit! is compatible with AVI video files, allowing users to incorporate virtually any video content ç from DV to D1 ç into DVDit! projects. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, building DVD titles is as easy as selecting a menu background and then dragging and dropping an AVI file. DVDit! automatically builds buttons and interactivity, transcodes video to MPEG-2, multiplexes and formats content and writes it to CD-R or DVD-R for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or DVD-equipped PCs. DVDit! can create interactive titles in DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, cDVDÙ and Streaming DVDÙ formats.

About Broadfield Distributing, Inc.
Based in Long Island, New York, Broadfield Distributing, Inc. is a leading distributor of digital video editing and production equipment dedicated to providing resellers with product information, technical support, pricing and an unprecedented online resource at www.broadfield.com with password protected pricing. The Electronic Mailbox is a wholly-owned value-added mail-order reseller offering consumers unmatched customer service and technical support online at www.videoguys.comÙ - Home of "The Desk Top Video Handbook OnlineÙ.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions designs and manufactures DVD publishing and audio editing systems used by video, audio and multimedia professionals around the world. Sonic's product lines include DVD Creator, the leading system for professional DVD production; DVD Fusion for Macintosh, the first DVD publishing system designed for non-linear video editors; DVDit! (http://store.dvdit.com/), the easiest way to publish on DVD and the first DVD publishing application for consumers; and SonicStudio HD, the leading digital audio workstation to prepare recorded sound for release on DVD and CD. Sonic is a leader in advancing DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technology and is a full voting-member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.. Sonic Solutions can be contacted on the web at http://www.sonic.com/.

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