Sharp Electronics Corporation Chooses Sonic MyDVD® for Latest Line of Laptop Computers

New Mebius Series PC-GP10-DH Features Industry’s Leading Solution for DVD Creation

Marin County, California (May 20, 2003) – Sonic Solutions® [NASDAQ: SNIC], the leader in DVD creation applications, announced today that its MyDVD software is now bundled with Sharp’s Mebius Series laptop computers sold in Japan. By combining Sonic's award-winning DVD authoring technology with Sharp’s powerful Mebius PC-GP10-DH laptop computer, video enthusiasts and consumers have an all-in-one solution for creating and sharing interactive content on DVD.

The Sharp PC-GP10-DH features a DVD multi-drive that allows users to burn and play not only DVD-R/RW but also DVD-RAM. With Sonic MyDVD, users can turn their home movies into interactive DVD titles featuring motion menus and animated buttons just like those found on Hollywood DVDs. With MyDVD’s unique DVD slideshow feature, users can create high-quality slideshows from their favorite scanned images or digital photos – adding motion video transitions and their own custom soundtrack. With complete support for the OpenDVD^® standard, Sonic MyDVD further enables DVDs created on the Sharp PC-GP10-DH to be opened, edited and re-burned to DVD recordable media.

“With the introduction of this DVD-equipped laptop, Sharp has again demonstrated its position at the leading edge of consumer electronics,” said Koki Terui, Senior Vice President of Pacific Rim Operations at Sonic Solutions. “We are extremely pleased that Sharp has chosen Sonic MyDVD to power DVD creation in the Mebius PC-GP10-DH. This laptop solution will be extremely useful for consumers and business users who want to create amazing-looking DVDs both at home and while traveling on the road.”

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 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 Sharp Corporation Based in Osaka Japan, Sharp Corporation has long been a leader in the consumer electronics industry. Sharp Corporation has continuously opened up new areas of industry with its original products, from the “Ever-Sharp” mechanical pencils from which the company name was derived, to the commercialization of the first Japanese-made radios and televisions, the world’s first LCD electronic calculators, and a host of other products incorporating state-of-the-art LCD technology. These products have contributed to the improvement of human living and the advancement of society as a whole.

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.

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