New York, New York (November 20, 2001) - Sonic Solutions announced today that it is collaborating with the Department of Defense and a coalition of more than 15 corporate supporters in the "Message From America" program.

Message From America will enable all Americans to videotape holiday greetings and expressions of support for the men and women of the Armed Forces. Beginning November 26th and continuing through December 31st, Americans may visit any of the more than 600 Circuit City Superstores nationwide to videotape 30-second messages. These messages from the general public will be sent to the USO and Armed Forces Network to be shared with military personnel at military installations around the world. In addition, CBS will edit the public greetings into montages which will appear as public service announcements during prime time, sports, and other programs broadcast on CBS, UPN and MTV.

As a special part of the Message From America public service program, family members of currently deployed military personnel with military IDs will be able to record personal messages of up to five minutes in length for their loved ones. These personal messages will then be transferred to DVD using Sonic MyDVD™ and given to the family in mailing envelopes. Family members may mail them directly to their loved ones on active duty. Families with military IDs may record their messages at any Circuit City Superstore or at approximately 100 of the nation's military installations.

"Sonic is honored to provide software and to participate in this program so that our troops around the world can receive video greetings this holiday season," said Robert Doris, President and CEO of Sonic Solutions, "We are very grateful to all the members of the U.S. military, and we hope that these personal video messages on DVD can help them share holiday wishes with their families and loved ones during this holiday season."

Message From America is being conducted with the support of more than 15 companies. For more information on the public service initiative, visit www.messagefromamerica.com.

COALITION OF SUPPORTERS
Artistic Screening Company
Bernie Telsey Casting
Burson-Marsteller
Calumet Carton
CBS
Circuit City Stores, Inc.
Go Robot
Kashan Litho
Look
Mohawk Marketing
MTV
Nice Shoes
Renco Display & Packaging
RiTec Global Media
Sonic Solutions
Sony Electronics Inc.
Sound Lounge
U.S. Department of Defense
UPN
Young & Rubicam

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 MyDVD (http://www.mydvd.sonic.com) is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, making it easy to capture "your life on DVD." 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 DVD Creator®, Sonic Scenarist®, Sonic ReelDVD™ 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.

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