Sonic RecordNow!T to Power CD/DVD Burners in HP PCs Worldwide

Sonic RecordNow! Enables Burning of Music, Photos and Data to CD/DVD Media in New HP Consumer Desktop PCs

Marin County , California ( September 23 , 2003 ) - Sonic Solutions [NASDAQ: SNIC], announced today that its new RecordNow! version 6 CD/DVD data mastering software is now bundled with the new HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario and HP Media Center desktop PCs worldwide. Combining RecordNow!'s award-winning ease-of-use with solid CD and DVD burning technology, HP's new holiday line-up of consumer desktop PCs give users the power to easily burn music CDs, copy CDs and DVDs, and share or protect photos, music, financial records, and other important data on optical media.

"We are extremely pleased to be able to provide HP with a simple, yet powerful, CD and DVD burning solution for their new HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario and HP Media Center PCs," said Dave Habiger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Desktop Product Group at Sonic. "More and more, consumers are spending their time at the PC burning CDs and DVDs, while business users are more concerned about data backup now than ever. With RecordNow! version 6, HP's customers will have an application that makes burning CDs and DVDs fun and easy while ensuring maximum data integrity for their most important files."

RecordNow! version 6's task-based interface, designed by usability professionals, enables HP customers to easily create custom music compilation CDs, backup and share photos, and protect their critical content on CDs and DVDs easily and quickly.

"HP strives to make our PCs the easiest to use in the industry by bundling them with intuitive software applications," said Tom Anderson, vice president, HP consumer PC organization. "HP was the first PC maker to offer Sonic RecordNow! version 6 in our consumer PCs because Sonic's simple, task-based interface offers our customers a very straightforward way to burn CDs and DVDs."

About Sonic RecordNow!
Sonic RecordNow! powers millions of CD and DVD burners worldwide, giving users the ability to burn high-quality, high-integrity discs of their music, photos and data. Designed with ease-of-use in mind, RecordNow! combines an award-winning user interface with a powerful and robust CD/DVD burning engine, making it easy and approachable for first-time users, but powerful enough for DVD and CD burning pros. With RecordNow! any burning task, from creating music CDs to backing up photos and mission-critical data to making copies of CDs and DVDs, can be easily accomplished.

Sonic RecordNow! includes support for all mainstream disc formats, full functionality in sixteen languages, and extensive operating system support including Windows 98SE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP (Home, Professional, and Media Center Edition).

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