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Sonic MyDVD® Wins Best Product of the Year Award

Industry’s Leading DVD Creation Software Selected “Best of Best” by Presentations Magazine

Marin County, California (March 3, 2003) - Sonic Solutions announced today that Sonic MyDVD, the industry’s leading DVD creation software, has received Presentations Magazine’s prestigious 2002 Standing Ovation Award in the Best DVD Authoring Software category. Presentations’ Standing Ovation Awards are based on ease of use, innovation, performance and quality, and winners are selected by the magazine’s editors, columnists and network of experts in each category. Presentations magazine is the industry’s leading publication on technology and techniques for creative communication.

“Every year Presentations surveys the field to honor the absolute best products of they year with our Standing Ovation Awards,” said Tad Simons, Editor-in-chief of Presentations Magazine. “MyDVD was selected because of its ease of use and powerful features. We were extremely impressed with MyDVD’s ability to easily re-edit presentations using OpenDVD®, as well as its superior slideshow creation capabilities. Congratulations to Sonic on a truly exceptional product.”

Based on the same technology as Sonic’s industry-leading Hollywood DVD production systems, Sonic MyDVD makes it fast and easy for anyone to create DVDs and VCDs of their own videos and photos and add the same sizzle found in Hollywood titles. With the ability to simply drag-and-drop video and audio into a project, add interactive menus and record the final content to DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW, Sonic MyDVD offers the most flexibility and compatibility of any application on the market. With OpenDVD technology, MyDVD users can also re-edit their DVD and VCD projects later at any time and add and delete content and change menus.

Presentations’ Standing Ovation Award coincides with the recent introduction of MyDVD for windows XP Media Center, a new version of MyDVD that burns DVDs of TV shows and other video content recorded by Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition. Sonic MyDVD 4 for Windows XP Media Center Edition adds DVD recording to the Media Center entertainment experience so that consumers can easily select and burn recorded TV shows, slideshows, videos and other digital entertainment to DVD recordable discs and play them back on any standard PC-based or set-top DVD player. The recorded DVDs support Sonic’s OpenDVD® technology and can be re-edited at any time using MyDVD or other OpenDVD-enabled applications.

"The winners of the Standing Ovations Awards are the undisputed cream of the crop, and we are honored that they selected Sonic as the best DVD creations software," said Dave Habiger, General Manager of the Desktop Products Group at Sonic. "With features and functionality targeted to the needs of users who view DVD as the ideal means to communicate and create presentations, Sonic continues to maintain its clear leadership position in DVD production solutions.”

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-the-minute, customized sales presentations, compilations of family events, and more.

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, CinePlayer, Edit-on-DVD, OpenDVD, and PrimeTime are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AuthorScript, Sonic DVD Creator, MyDVD, DVDit!, 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.