Plextor Chooses Sonic MyDVD® for Its First DVD Recordable DVD+R/RW Optical Drive

Plextor PX-504A Powered by World’s Leading DVD Software

Novato, California (March 19, 2003) – Sonic Solutions announced today that Plextor® Co., a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance CD-related equipment and software, has selected MyDVD to bring DVD and Video CD creation capabilities to the PX-504A, its first-ever DVD recordable DVD+R/RW drive. By including MyDVD 4 with drives shipped in Japan, Plextor adds exciting DVD creation capabilities including Direct-to-DVD™ recording, Hollywood-style motion menus, animated buttons, and high-quality slide shows to its internal DVD writer.

The PX-504A DVD+R/RW drive is the industry's first DVD writer designed to meet Plextor's exacting standards for high-quality recording of DVD and CD discs and delivers blazing-fast 4X DVD+R Writing and 2.4X DVD+RW Rewriting, making it one of the fastest DVD+R/RW drives on the market today. Users can create, edit, and share customized DVDs and CDs using video, photos, audio, and data. The PX-504A gives users the ability to back up and archive up to 4.7GB on a single-sided Recordable DVD disc, and to create photo and video albums for viewing with DVD players. With OpenDVD^® technology, included as part of MyDVD, home users are also able to open previously-burned DVDs and Video CDs so that they can be edited, updated, saved and re-burned with new video content, to recordable DVD and CD media.

“With Sonic MyDVD 4, our PX504A drive users can actually record videos to DVD, watch them on their TVs, and then put them back into their PCs to edit and update the content using OpenDVD,” said Mr. Wataru Ikawa, Peripheral Division Manager at Plextor Co. “Sonic has long been recognized as the leading provider of DVD creation solutions, and we are pleased to work with them to add DVD capabilities to our breakthrough DVD+R/RW drive.”

“With the PX504A, Plextor has again proven it is at the cutting edge of optical storage technologies, and we are very pleased to have been selected to collaborate with them as they bring their first-ever DVD+R/RW drive to market," said Koki Terui, Senior Vice-president of Operations, Pacific Rim, at Sonic. "With Sonic MyDVD, PX504A users gain access to a powerful, integrated and easy-to-use DVD creation solution for quickly creating, sharing, and archiving content on DVD.”

About the Plextor PX-504A DVD+R/RW Drive
The Plextor PX-504A is a highly versatile DVD/CD burner specifically designed to deliver high-quality recording performance. In addition to recording, rewriting, and reading DVD discs at multiple speeds, the unit also supports 16X CD-Recordable, 10X CD-ReWritable, and 40X CD-Read.

The drive itself is designed for flexible PC installation, with support for horizontal or vertical drive bay orientations, ATA/ATAPI-5 interface, and compatibility with Microsoft Windows 98/98Se/Me/2000/XP operating systems. The unit features a 2MB data buffer and burst data transfer rates of 5.5 MB/sec., which allows a user to burn a 4.7GB disc in less than fifteen minutes.

Availability
The Plextor PX-504A DVD+R/RW drive is currently available to distributors and resellers in Japan.

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 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 Plextor Co.
Plextor Co. (Headquarters: Yaesu 1-4-21 Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan) is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance CD-related equipment for professional use in consumer and business environments. Plextor has introduced numerous generations of award-winning optical storage products, including CD-ROM, CD-Recordable, CD-ReWritable, and DVD+R/RW drives. Plextor is privately owned by Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of advanced technology hardware and precision electronic equipment headquartered in Japan. Shinano Kenshi is best known for its expertise in manufacturing motors.

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. PlexWriter is a trademark of Plextor Co. 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.