Sonic Solutions DVD and CD Creation Software Ships with ViewSonic NextVision M2000 Digital Media Center

Marin County, California (March 26, 2003) — Sonic Solutions [NASDAQ: SNIC] announced today that its MyDVD® 4 DVD recording software for Windows XP Media Center Edition and RecordNow™ CD and DVD data mastering application are now shipping with the ViewSonic® NextVision™ M2000 Digital Media Center, ViewSonic’s first entertainment product with digital video recording. Sonic MyDVD is the first application to add DVD recording to the Media Center Edition entertainment experience, allowing users to easily select and burn their personal digital entertainment, such as photo slideshows, music, videos and TV recordings, to CD and DVD and play them back on any standard PC-based or set-top DVD player. The recorded DVDs also support the OpenDVD^® format, which gives users the added benefit to re-edit content at any time using MyDVD or other OpenDVD-enabled applications.

“Sonic MyDVD and RecordNow software are great complements to our M2000 Digital Media Center,” said Marc McConnaughey, Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology Group, ViewSonic. “NextVision M2000 users can record their favorite home movies and television shows to DVD, and with OpenDVD^® they have the flexibility to reopen and edit their DVDs at any time.”

“We are pleased that Sonic Solutions has been selected by ViewSonic as the DVD burning application for their Windows XP Media Center Edition product,” said Kevin Eagan, General Manager of the Windows eHome Division at Microsoft Corp. “Consumers are turning to the PC for an expanding array of new home entertainment experiences, and Sonic MyDVD delivers a simple, convenient way to create DVDs of personal content to save and watch later with family and friends.”

"We are extremely pleased to be working with ViewSonic to bring DVD burning capabilities to NextVision M2000 users who want to save their recorded TV shows to DVD," said Dave Habiger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Desktop Product Group at Sonic. "The ViewSonic bundle with Sonic MyDVD and RecordNow takes advantage of the latest advances in CD and DVD technology, and gives home users a powerful, yet easy to use solution for creating Hollywood-quality DVDs of their favorite home movies and recorded TV programs, for backing up their data to CD or DVD-ROM, and for creating music and MP3 CDs.”

The ViewSonic NextVision M2000 Digital Media Center combines computer, audio and video capabilities into one platform, transforming any display – LCD, plasma, projector, etc. – into a multimedia home theater system. The ViewSonic NextVision M2000 Digital Media Center is now available through select retail outlets, mail order and PC reseller channels in North America.

About Sonic MyDVD
Sonic MyDVD is the leading PC application for consumer DVD creation. Sonic MyDVD makes it easy to burn highquality DVDs with motion-video menus, animated buttons and 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.

About Sonic RecordNow
Millions of PC users have chosen Sonic RecordNow to provide them with fast, reliable, and high-quality CD and DVD recording. RecordNow was designed to be very easy to use, leaving the user’s creative talents unhindered. Wizards guide users through creating music CDs, data CDs/DVDs, and backup copies of discs in their collection. With RecordNow, compilation music CDs are a snap and data discs only take a few mouse clicks to create. RecordNow also features Drive Letter Access (DLA) technology, which allows users to quickly and easily write data to CDs and DVDs by simply dragging files and folders to the disc drive icon within Windows Explorer.

About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions (http://www.sonic.com) is the world's leading supplier of DVD creation software for professional, industrial and consumer applications. The majority of major film releases on DVD have been produced on Sonic's professional DVD authoring systems in studios around the world. Sonic's MyDVD® and DVDit!® are the most widely-used DVD creation applications by consumers and video enthusiasts and are the solutions of choice among the key PC and after-market drive suppliers. Sonic's RecordNow is a leading solution for audio and data mastering. Sonic's AuthorScript, the DVD and CD formatting and burning engine that underlies Sonic's applications, is the most widely deployed DVD software engine and has been licensed by Adobe, Microsoft, Sony, and many others.

Sonic, the Sonic logo, Backup MyPC, CinePlayer, DVD PrePlay, DVD Producer, Edit-on-DVD, OpenDVD, PrimeTime, RecordNow and Simple Backup are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AuthorScript, AutoDVD, DVD-Audio Creator, DVD Creator, DVDit!, DVD Fusion, MyDVD, NoNOISE, ReelDVD, Scenarist and Sonic Solutions 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.