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Fujitsu Chooses Sonic MyDVD® for New PCs
Latest FMV-BIBLO Series Notebook PC and FMV-DESKPOWER Desktop PCs Feature
Industry's Leading DVD Creation Software
Las Vegas, Nevada (November 18, 2002) – Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
announced today at the Comdex Convention, that Fujitsu Ltd. is now bundling
Sonic™ MyDVD® 4 with their new Notebook PC, FMV-BIBLO NB18B and Desktop PCs,
FMV-DESKPOWER Series CE18B/R, CE18WB/R, C20SB/M, C20WB/M,C24WB/M, and L18B/F
for sale in Japan. Combining an intuitive user interface with a powerful DVD
and Video CD creation engine, MyDVD provides users of the new Fujitsu PCs, which
includes a DVD-R/RW drive and TV tuner, the ability to create Hollywood-style
DVDs of their favorite TV programs, home videos and digital images.
"We are very pleased to introduce our new Notebook PC with DVD creation software
from Sonic Solutions," said Tomoharu Kariya, Manager of the Platform Engineering
Department, Personal Systems Business Group, at Fujitsu Ltd. "Sonic has long
been at the forefront of DVD technology and their MyDVD 4 application delivers
the high performance and features necessary to take our new Notebook PC to the
next level in home video creation."
Fujitsu's PCs are designed as a complete home entertainment system. With built-in
TV tuner and MPEG-2 encoder, the FMV-BIBLO and FMV-DESKPOWER enable users to
watch and record high-definition and standard-definition television as well
as record and play music. With the addition of Sonic MyDVD 4, users can turn
their recorded programs, home videos, music and digital photos into DVDs and
Video CDs that can be burned using the included DVD-R/RW CD-RW recorder.
"Fujitsu is clearly one of the leading innovators and providers of PC systems
worldwide, and their choice to bundle MyDVD with their PCs is received with
great enthusiasm," said Koki Terui, Senior Vice-president of Operations, Pacific
Rim, for Sonic Solutions. "The combination of MyDVD 4 with Fujitsu's PCs allows
home users to create Hollywood-style DVDs of their home videos and favorite
TV programs quickly and easily".
Featuring Sonic's Hollywood-proven DVD creation engine, Sonic MyDVD 4 enables
users to create DVDs with motion-video menus, animated buttons and high-quality
DVD slideshows with transitions and soundtracks. MyDVD 4 also features optimized
Direct-to-DVD™ recording which allows users, in just a few clicks, to record
their content directly to DVD from a video source connected to the computer's
video input. Sonic MyDVD 4 is also OpenDVD®-compliant, enabling previously burned
DVDs to be opened, re-edited, updated with new video and photo content and re-burned
to DVD recordable/re-writable media.
About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu Limited is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications
solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, high-reliability/performance
computing and telecommunications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems
and services experts make Fujitsu uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite
possibilities of the broadband Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered
in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5 trillion
yen (about US$42 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002. For more
information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com.
About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com)
is the world's 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 two million copies of MyDVD and DVDit! have been shipped.
With its high-performance MPEG decoding engine and support for Microsoft DirectX®,
Sonic CinePlayer™ provides the highest-quality video and audio playback of DVDs
or Video CDs. Sonic DVD Creator®, Sonic Scenarist®, Sonic ReelDVD® and Sonic
DVD Producer™ 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's AuthorScript® engine for DVD formatting
and burning is licensed by leading software developers including Adobe, Microsoft
and Sony. Sonic is a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting
body for the DVD format.
Sonic, the Sonic logo, Sonic CinePlayer, Edit-on-DVD, OpenDVD, and True DVD
Slideshow are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AuthorScript, Sonic DVD Creator,
MyDVD, DVDit!, ReelDVD 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.
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