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Logitec Bundles Sonic MyDVD with New DVD+RW Drive

Combining MyDVD with Logitec's ATAPI Internal DVD+RW Drive Makes Home DVD-Moviemaking Simple

Marin County, California (December 6, 2001) ­ Sonic Solutions announced today that Logitec Corporation, a leading supplier of PC peripherals in Japan, has chosen Sonic MyDVD to provide DVD recording, editing and authoring capabilities for their new ATAPI internal DVD+RW drive. By combining the ease-of-use of MyDVD with Logitec's ATAPI internal DVD+RW drive at an attractive price point, Logitec's new bundle brings home DVD moviemaking to a broad new audience.

"Sonic has made home DVD recording and publishing for consumers a reality," said Shun'ichi Hirasawa, Managing Director at Logitec. "With its real-time DVD recording capability, ability to edit DVDs after the fact, and overall ease of use, MyDVD gives our customers the power to turn their home movies and favorite videos into DVD titles that will provide hours of enjoyment and the ability to preserve their most precious memories." Sonic MyDVD makes it easy to create DVDs by integrating real-time video and audio recording from computer-attached camcorders or VHS decks, automatic menu creation with buttons and navigation based on user-selected styles, and fast recording to DVD+RW discs that can be played on home set-top players or DVD-equipped PCs.

"Logitec is recognized around the world as a leading provider of high-quality PC peripherals," said Koki Terui, Senior Vice-President of Pacific Rim Operations at Sonic. "The Logitec/Sonic bundle takes advantage of the advanced capabilities of DVD+RW, enabling home PC users and video enthusiasts to quickly and easily record and edit DVD-video as well as add menus and additional content to DVD+RW discs. Sonic MyDVD is the perfect complement to Logitec's ATAPI DVD+RW drive."

Priced at 74,000 JY / $620 US, the ATAPI drive is now shipping worldwide.

About MyDVD
MyDVD Video is built on Sonic's Hollywood-standard DVD formatting engine ­ the same technology used to produce tens of millions of consumer DVD-Video titles. Building on this standard ensures that DVDs produced with the application are playable on the widest range of consumer DVD players. MyDVD provides three ways for consumers to create their own professional-looking DVD titles:

Direct-to-DVD™
The first solution for recording directly to the DVD, MyDVD allows video from a camcorder or VCR to be written to DVD-recordable discs in a single step. In this mode, the user connects a camcorder or VCR to the PC and the application automatically converts the video and audio into DVD-compatible formats, creates menus and buttons for each video clip, and burns to the DVD-recorder.

DVD Authoring
In authoring mode, interactive DVDs can be created by dragging and dropping different types of multimedia elements into a DVD project ­ video from camcorders, video files on hard disk in AVI, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats, audio and graphics data. MyDVD includes a built-in, faster-than-real-time¹ transcoder that automatically converts all incoming video formats into those compatible with DVD players, freeing the user from the headaches of determining DVD file compatibility.

MyDVD includes a wide range of professionally designed styles ­ menu backgrounds, buttons and other features that add polish to projects. Chapter points can be added to any video, automatically or manually on-the-fly, as video is being recorded. This means that DVD titles created with MyDVD include all of the navigation, buttons and menus automatically, yielding professional quality results for the home user.

DVD Editing™
Sonic MyDVD is the first application that not only records DVDs in real-time, but also creates DVDs that can be re-edited right on disc. DVD Editing is an exciting new technology innovated by Sonic which allows discs to be changed after they are initially created, enabling an entirely new generation of DVD applications, such as video diaries, up-to-the-minute, customized sales presentations, compilations of family events, and more.

About the ATAPI (Ultra ATA/33) Internal DVD+RW Unit
The ATAPI internal DVD+RW drive supports 2.4x writing/rewriting to DVD+RW disc. Using a new technology called "Lossless Linking" to suspend and continue the writing process without linking loss, rewritten media can be read by existing DVD-ROM drives. The ATAPI drive supports 12x write to CD-R, 10x write to CD-RW, 32x read from CD-ROM and 8x read from DVD-ROM. In addition, the drive's "JustLink" feature is very efficient in writing data to CD-R and CD-RW because it prevents buffer under-run error and thus ensures stable and reliable data writing.

About Logitec Corporation
Based in Tokyo and having a large manufacturing site in Nagano, Japan, Logitec is a major manufacturer of computer peripherals in Japan with strong emphasis on customer needs and support. The product lines include storage devices, servers, network related terminals and video editing workstations. Logitec is the total IT solution company.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD and audio publishing. SonicStudio® HD is the leading digital workstation for preparing audio for release on CD and is the first for creating content for the new DVD-Audio format. Sonic DVD Creator®, Sonic Scenarist®, and Sonic 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. 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™ (http://www.mydvd3.sonic.com) is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD." Sonic is a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

¹ Based on performance tests conducted at Sonic Solutions on a single-processor Pentium 4 system running at 1.5GHz, on a 1 minute, full-frame, 30fps NTSC video file in AVI format.

© 2001 Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, MyDVD, and ReelDVD are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. DVD Creator, DVD Fusion, Scenarist, DVDit!, and SonicStudio are registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.