Hitachi Chooses Sonic MyDVD® to Bundle with DVD-RAM

Cameras Industry's Leading DVD Creation Software Enables Hitachi DVD-RAM Camera Users to Create Their Own DVDs

Marin County, California (January 14, 2003) — Sonic Solutions [NASDAQ: SNIC], the world leader in DVD creation applications, announced today that its Sonic MyDVD 4 software is now bundled with Hitachi's [NYSE: HIT] new DVD-RAM cameras worldwide. Included with Hitachi's DVD-RAM DZ-MV350 Series and DZ-MV380 Series cameras, Sonic MyDVD provides Hitachi's customers with a complete solution for turning their home videos, music and digital photos into Hollywood-style DVDs with motion menu backgrounds, animated buttons and high-quality slideshows. The completed DVD projects can then be played back on any of the millions of set-top and PC-based DVD players around the world.

"After having evaluated various DVD recording applications available to us, we chose to go with Sonic," said Takahiko Nakae, the director of the DVD products division, at Hitachi. "Sonic Solutions is recognized the worldover as the leading provider of solutions for DVD creation, and their MyDVD 4 software provides our users with the features, performance and reliability they count on for creating home videos to share with family and friends."

"Hitachi's new DVD-RAM cameras represent the future of home video creation, as they change the way that people shoot, record, archive and share their videos," said Koki Terui, Senior Vice President of Pacific Rim Operations at Sonic Solutions. "Sonic is extremely pleased that MyDVD will play a key role in Hitachi's new DVDRAM cameras. Together, we provide an exceptional combination of features, performance, and ease-of-use in home recording."

Hitachi's DVDCAM DZ-MV350 Series and DZ-MV380 Series were announced at the International CES convention and will ship worldwide in April 2003.

About Sonic MyDVD
Sonic MyDVD is the leading PC application for consumer DVD creation. 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.

Sonic MyDVD makes it easy to burn high-quality DVDs with motion-video menus, animated buttons and True DVD Slideshows™ with transitions and soundtracks. Sonic MyDVD 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 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 and CD recordable/re-writable media. This enables an entirely new generation of DVD and CD applications, such as video diaries, up-to-theminute, customized sales presentations, compilations of family events, and more.

About the Hitachi DVDCAM DZ-MV350 Series and DZ-MV380 Series
The Hitachi DVDCAM DZ-MV350 and DVDCAM DZ-MV380 series cameras allow users to shoot their video content and easily record it onto a DVD-RAM/R disc. Recording automatically starts from the end of the previous recording when the [REC] button is pressed, and because data is recorded onto the DVD disc, overwriting errors are avoided. Users can also preview their movies instantly and, if they wish, easily find and play back the beginning of the recorded content without having to rewind tape, and then continue to record. The DVDCAM DZMV350 / DZ-MV380 series camera offers exceptional portability and can be carried around easily during sports events, celebrations, and other family occasions.

As opposed to traditional video cameras, where video recordings are saved on tape and still pictures are saved in memory, with the DVDCAM DZ-MV350 / DZ-MV380 series camera, both video and still pictures can be recorded onto a single disc. Up to 60 minutes of video can be saved in FINE mode or 1998 still images on one disc.

In addition, the XTRA (VBR) mode for high image quality automatically judges the complexity of pictures for the best-quality recording. When the pictures are complex or the objects are moving quickly, more data and settings are allocated to the recording process. When the pictures are simple, less data is used.

Once users have completed their video, they can export the content from the USB 2.0 port to any PC and edit their pictures and create Hollywood-style DVDs with motion menus, animated buttons, and True DVD Slideshows using Sonic MyDVD. The completed DVD projects can then be played back on an installed base of millions of set-top and PC-based DVD players around the world.

About Hitachi
Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies. The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit Hitachi's Web site at http://global.hitachi.com.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the world's leading supplier of DVD and CD creation software. Sonic's professional DVD authoring software is used to produce the majority of major film releases on DVD. Sonic's desktop DVD creation software powers most of the world's DVD burners, and Sonic's CD and DVD mastering software is the top rated OEM solution for transferring and backing up data to CD and DVD media. Sonic's core strengths include in-depth knowledge of the DVD and CD digital media formats and the video and audio data types they require, and the design of friendly, yet powerful, authoring and editing applications for the consumer, desktop and professional CD and DVD markets.

Sonic, the Sonic logo, CinePlayer, Edit-on-DVD, OpenDVD, and PrimeTime 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.