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ADS Technologies Bundles Sonic MyDVD™ with Digital Video Products

Enables PYRO 1394 Users to Edit, Author and Record Their Videos on DVD

Marin County, California (February 13, 2001) – Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC) announced today that ADS Technologies, a world leader in Universal Serial Bus (USB) and IEEE-1394 (FireWire) solutions for the personal computer, is bundling MyDVD with its line of PYRO 1394 digital video products. The partnership allows PYRO users to drag-and-drop their edited video sequences, audio clips, graphics, backgrounds, and buttons into MyDVD! and then easily build an interactive DVD title and write it to CD-R/RW.

“We’re delighted that ADS has chosen to include MyDVD with their PYRO 1394 DV products,” said Mark Ely, Vice President of Business Development at Sonic. “We believe Sonic MyDVD is the perfect complement to Pyro1394. Working with Sonic, ADS will be able to bring DVD technology to their rapidly growing base of customers eager to publish their DV videos on DVD.”

“Sonic has revolutionized digital video publishing with MyDVD,” said Mike McCoy, President of ADS Technologies. “Combining the incredible ease-of-use of MyDVD with PYRO 1394 makes it possible for users to turn their home movies and favorite videos into DVD titles that can be played on their set-top DVD player or desktop PC. ADS is extremely pleased to be working with Sonic, the acknowledged leader in DVD authoring, as we bring our leading-edge 1394 products to market.”

DVD-Video is the fastest growing consumer electronics format in history. With over 23 million DVD set-top players and over 40 million DVD-equipped PCs in the market today, DVD is rapidly replacing tape as the video publishing format of choice for both video professionals and video
enthusiasts.

About PYRO 1394 Three-port OHCI-Compliant PCI Host Card
The PYRO 1394 host card was first introduced in June 1999 as PYRO 1394DV, the first affordable digital video editing system for all levels of DV enthusiasts. It hit the market at a time when digital video editing solutions were exclusive to DV professionals at a cost that was inaccessible to consumers. And while the prices of consumer digital video camcorders dropped, the quality and cost of the PYRO 1394DV made it so popular among DV users that the PYRO 1394 host card is now the number one selling consumer 1394/FireWire upgrade card in the world.
ADS Technologies has since introduced a number of popular PYR O digital video products including: PYRO ProDV, PYRO Basic and PYRO 1394DV For Notebooks, and its latest PYRO PlatinumDV featuring Adobe“ Premiere“.

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 CD-R devices, and MyDVD automatically writes a software player on the disc, making it easy to publish interactive videos on universal, low-cost media and play them back on virtually any PC. More information about MyDVD is available at mydvd.sonic.com.

About ADS Technologies, Inc.
ADS Technologies of Cerritos, California, is a world leader in Universal Serial Bus and IEEE-1394/FireWire solutions for the personal computer. Since the company’s inception in 1992, the cornerstone of the company’s success has been to introduce niche or high-end technologies to the consumer marketplace with quality devices sold at a reasonable cost. The privately held company manufactures USB and 1394 hardware, and scan converters for both PCs and Macs. For more information visit the ADS Technologies’ website at http://www.adstech.com. Public Relations & Marketing Contact: Christina Cu-Ito, ADS Technology christina@adstech.com, 800-888-5244.

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™ (http://www.mydvd.sonic.com) is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD." Sonic DVD Creator® 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. 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 is also a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format.

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