Sonic MyDVD® Named "Product of the Year" by Videomaker Magazine

MyDVD Sweeps Awards in 2003 and 2004 with Editors' Choice and Product of the Year Honors from PC Magazine, PC Upgrade, TECH Edge, EMedia, Laptop Magazine and Others

Marin County, California (March 2, 2004) — Sonic Solutions [Nasdaq: SNIC] announced today that Sonic MyDVD Studio Deluxe, the industry's leading DVD creation software, has received Videomaker Magazine's 2003 Product of the Year Award for Best Introductory DVD Authoring Software. The product is featured in the special awards section of the current "Best of the Year" issue of Videomaker magazine, the industry's leading publication for videographers and video enthusiasts.

"In our opinion, of all the entry-level DVD creation applications that hit the market this past year, Sonic MyDVD Studio Deluxe stood out from the crowd for its usability, quality and affordability," said Stephen Muratore, Editor in Chief of Videomaker Magazine. "With features and functionality targeted to the needs of beginning and intermediate users, MyDVD Studio Deluxe was selected because it offers a strong set of features and is very easy to use. We would like to congratulate Sonic on a very well-designed product."

In addition to being recognized as Product of the Year by Videomaker, MyDVD has also garnered an impressive number of other awards in 2003 and 2004, including Editors' Choice awards from PC Magazine, TECH Edge, PC Upgrade, EMedia, and Laptop magazine, as well as a Product of the Year award from Presentations magazine.

"We're very proud that MyDVD has been selected as the best product of the year in its class," said Charles Wiltgen, Product Marketing Manager for the MyDVD product line at Sonic. "With MyDVD Studio Deluxe our goal was to build an easy, reliable way for our users to create the most compatible DVDs and CDs, and the response to the latest version has been nothing short of phenomenal. We couldn't be more pleased to be putting a friendly face on technologies formerly available only to Hollywood professionals."

Chosen by Videomaker's editorial staff, Best Products of the Year winners represent the highest achievements in quality, innovation, ease of use, dependability, performance, affordability and empowerment. Winning products are those that score the highest within their categories, relative to the competition.

With over ten million copies of MyDVD and DVDit! shipped, this prestigious award seconds what customers everywhere are demonstrating: that MyDVD Studio Deluxe is the best choice for burning CDs and DVDs. MyDVD is the DVD software bundle choice for the majority of drive and PC manufacturers, including Adaptec, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Iomega, LITEON, NEC, NU Technology, Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Sony, ViewSonic, and many others.

MyDVD also recently won the PC Magazine Editors' Choice award with the highest 5-star rating. Commenting on MyDVD in the October 28 issue of the magazine, reviewer Sascha Segan wrote, "On the authoring front, Sonic MyDVD 5 blows away the other authoring packages in this roundup with its video quality and elegance, creating slick, clean DVDs or VCDs with animated menus and neat transitions." The author later added, "Clean, clear, and powerful, MyDVD 5 is as good as authoring programs get for PCs right now."

MyDVD Studio Deluxe 5 is available at major retailers through Adaptec and can also be purchased at the Sonic webstore (http://estore.sonic.com).

About Sonic MyDVD Studio™ Deluxe
Sonic MyDVD Studio Deluxe is the easiest, most complete CD and DVD creation software. It includes comprehensive tools to burn video and photos to CD and DVD, create music CDs, legally copy personal DVD movies, back-up and archive critical files, play DVD and VCD movies on a PC, and create custom disc labels.

MyDVD Studio Deluxe features integrated video editing with automatic scene detection. It also includes the ability to add chapter points, motion-video menus, and animated buttons to create the look of a real Hollywood DVD movie. Users can make high-quality photo slideshows on either CD or DVD complete with transitions and soundtracks. MyDVD Studio Deluxe 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.

MyDVD Studio Deluxe lets users create personalized music CDs and even allows unlimited MP3 encoding. Additional functionality includes the ability to burn exact copies of CDs or DVDs and the choice to either manually or automatically backup individual files, folders, or whole volumes to CD or DVD. MyDVD Studio Deluxe also includes disc labeling software, as well as Sonic CinePlayer, which allows users to play Hollywood DVDs right on their PC.

Because Sonic MyDVD Studio Deluxe is OpenDVD^®-compliant, previously burned discs can be opened, re-edited, updated with new video and photo content, and re-burned to DVD and CD recordable/re-writable media. This enables the creation of 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, Backup MyPC, CinePlayer, PrePlay, 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.