Pioneer Chooses Sonic MyDVD™ Video Suite

Sonic Provides OpenDVD™ Capability, Integrated Video Editing to Latest Pioneer DVD-R/RW Drives

Marin County, California (May 30, 2002) - Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC), the world leader in applications to create DVDs, announced today that Pioneer Electronics (USA), Inc., the leader in recordable DVD technology, has selected Sonic MyDVD 3.5 Video Suite to provide integrated DVD recording, video editing and authoring capabilities for its latest award-winning Pioneer DVR-A04 DVD/R/RW drives, the company's fourth-generation DVD recorders. By combining the Pioneer drive and Sonic MyDVD 3.5 Video Suite, Pioneer provides users of its DVR-A04 drives with the most powerful and flexible integrated application available to create, edit and burn DVDs.

"Offering Sonic MyDVD with the DVR-A04 delivers a very strong combination that takes personal video publishing to the next level," said Andy Parsons, Senior Vice-president of Industrial Video/Mass Storage Sales and Marketing, Pioneer Electronics (USA), Inc., Business Solutions Division. "With its flexibility and high compatibility with DVD playback devices, MyDVD is an ideal solution for adding value to our DVR-A04 drive."

Sonic MyDVD Video Suite enables users of Pioneer DVR-A04 drives to record videos to DVD, watch them on their TVs, and then, if they wish, put them back into their PCs to edit and update the content using Sonic's integrated technology to create OpenDVD-compliant discs. OpenDVD technology expands the possibilities for DVD by making it easy to create video diaries, up-to-the-minute customized sales presentations, family video albums and more.

MyDVD 3.5 Video Suite incorporates ArcSoft's ShowBiz video editor, enabling users to perform advanced video editing on their DVD titles, including the ability to add transitions, titles and effects.

"We are extremely pleased to be working with Pioneer to bring DVD recording to consumers and video enthusiasts," said Dave Habiger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Desktop Product Group at Sonic. "The Pioneer bundle with Sonic MyDVD takes advantage of the latest advances in DVD technology, enabling users to publish their home movies, video memories, or corporate presentations to DVD discs that can be viewed on any of the millions of DVD players worldwide. Sonic MyDVD is the perfect complement to Pioneer's DVR-A04 DVD/R/RW drives."

About OpenDVD
OpenDVD is a revolutionary technology that makes DVD discs dynamic and changeable. Until now, DVDvideo has been a static medium; once the DVD content on a disc was finalized, making even minor modifications was a major task that required the reconstruction of the entire disc from the original source files. The OpenDVD format changes all that by incorporating a special file in the DVD-ROM "zone" of a DVD disc that contains all the information needed to open a disc as a project file in any OpenDVD-compliant application, to work with all of the disc's existing contents, and to update the project with new content, menus, and more extensive interactivity. OpenDVD-compliant discs may be revised without reference to any original source materials making every DVD a living archive of the original video project, substantially saving hard drive space, archiving media costs, and hours of time. OpenDVD technology maintains the full featureset of the DVD-Video format, and complete compatibility with recordable/rewritable DVD and CD media. OpenDVD discs are viewable in all standard DVD playback settings, from set-top players to computer-hosted DVD drives.

About Sonic MyDVD
Sonic MyDVD is the first-ever DVD recording and editing application for personal computers. With its ability to record analog and digital video (DV) in real-time into MPEG-2 for DVD, MyDVD is the fastest and easiest way to share treasured video memories with friends and family on DVD discs from wedding videos to children's birthday parties and other special events.

MyDVD allows users to capture their video to a DVD or CD, just like recording onto a VCR. It also includes built-in, faster-than-real-time¹ software transcoding that automatically converts all video formats into those compatible with DVD players, freeing the user from the headaches of determining DVD file compatibility.

About the Pioneer DVR-A04
Pioneer's award-winning DVR-A04 is the company's fourth generation combination DVD/CD recordable/rerecordable drive. The DVR-A04 supports multiple recording formats including DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R and CDRW as well as CD buffer underrun protection, support for high speed CD-RW media, vertical mounting capability and a smaller form factor from previous generations. The DVR-A04 comes complete with a host of software tools included in the low price of the drive. Projects written by MyDVD allow easy DVD creation and editing to DVD-R and DVD-RW media that can be played back on both DVD set-top players or multimedia PCs, which together have an installed base of over 150 million units.

Pioneer Electronics (USA), Inc., Business Solutions Division, Mass Storage Group
Pioneer's Mass Storage Group is a leading supplier of DVD-Recordable drives, as well as automated DVD library systems and M-O and WORM multifunctional optical drives and media. The Business Solutions Division provides professional business-to-business products across a wide range of markets including cable television, professional video/audio, educational, medical, legal and banking.

Pioneer Corporation is a leader in optical disc technology and a preeminent manufacturer of highperformance audio, video, computer and cable equipment for the home, car and business markets. The company focuses on four core business domains including DVD, display technologies, Digital Network Entertainment™ and components. Founded in 1938 in Tokyo, Pioneer Corporation employs more than 31,000 people worldwide. Its shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: PIO). Pioneer's U.S. headquarters is located in Long Beach, California, and its U.S. Web address is www.pioneerelectronics.com.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the worlds leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD creation. Sonic MyDVD™ (http://www.mydvd.com) is the first DVD authoring application for consumers, and is the leading DVD solution among DVD recorder and PC manufacturers. Sonic DVDit! ® (http://www.dvdit.com) is the leading DVD authoring application for videographers and corporate video producers; more than 1 million copies of DVDit! have been sold. Sonic DVD Creator®, Sonic Scenarist®, Sonic ReelDVD®, Sonic DVD Producer™ and Sonic DVD Fusion for Mac 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. AuthorScript®, based on the same Sonic technology that has become the Hollywood standard for commercial title production, is the industry's most widely adopted set of developer tools for integrating DVD, Video CD (VCD) and Super Video CD (SVCD) creation into video applications. 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.

Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo, OpenDVD. Edit-on-DVD, DVD Producer and MyDVD are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AuthorScript, Sonic DVD Creator, DVDit!, and Scenarist are registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic under license. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.