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Roxio Showcases Expanded Mac Software Line at Macworld Expo; Product Advances Include High Definition Content Support in Toast, and Popcorn for DVD Copying and Backup.


SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  -- Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a digital media company based in Novato, California, USA. It was created in 1986 by former Lucasfilm employees who developed the AudioDroid digital audio editing system as part of the Droidworks project.  (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
:SNIC SNIC Singapore National Institute of Chemistry
SNIC Snow and Ice Clearance
SNIC Sub-Network Independent Convergence (functions)
SNIC Standard Network Interface Card
) and producer of the best-selling digital media software in the world, is showcasing its latest solutions for Macintosh users at Macworld 2005. Roxio is presenting demonstrations of its latest product advances and giving attendees in-depth 'how to' tutorials, as well as offering special pricing on its complete line of products for Mac OS X. Among the solutions featured at the Expo are Toast(R), Roxio's market-leading CD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 burning software, with support for High Definition (HD) content, and Toast with Jam(R), which combines Toast 6 Titanium burning software with a rich array of studio-quality audio software. Roxio will also be showing Popcorn(TM), the latest addition to its consumer software line, which enables users to copy non-encrypted DVD-Video discs.

"Macworld represents a tremendous opportunity for Sonic to showcase Roxio's expanded Mac product line and reiterate our commitment to the platform and our loyal customer base," said Dave Habiger, senior vice president and general manager of Sonic's Roxio division. "The Expo provides current customers with a look at our latest product offerings, and allows potential customers to learn first hand why our products have become synonymous with synonymous with
adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as
 ease-of-use, reliability, and technical leadership."

Support for HD content in future versions of Toast will enable users to import HD program files, such as those created from HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates  capture devices, and automatically create anamorphic See anamorphic lens and anamorphic DVD.  widescreen DVDs that preserve the 16:9 aspect ratio. Anamorphic DVDs are specially encoded with more visual information than 4:3 letterbox The effect of displaying a wide screen movie on a standard TV set the way it was originally shot in full panoramic format. On the TV, the image frame spans the full width of the screen, but because of the difference in aspect ratios of the two formats (wide screen movie vs.  DVDs, resulting in a sharper image when played on a widescreen TV.

Popcorn, the newest addition to Roxio's Mac OS software line, enables consumers to back up their non-encrypted DVD-Video discs. Popcorn features flexible compression and extraction to fit video content onto a single-layer recordable DVD, while maximizing visual quality and use of disc space. Popcorn integrates Toast burning technology to ensure superior results with legendary ease-of-use, and is compatible with discs created using Apple's iDVD and DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro is a high-end software tool published by Apple to allow users to create DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into  applications, as well as those recorded with set-top DVD recorders.

In addition to live demonstrations of Toast, Toast with Jam, and Popcorn, Roxio product experts will be on hand to answer questions from Macworld attendees. Special Macworld show pricing is available for purchases made at the Roxio booth, as well as online at www.roxio.com/macworld.

On Tuesday, January 11th at 2:30 p.m. in the South Hall "Special Attractions" Main Theater, Adam Fingerman, Roxio director of product management, will demonstrate how to use Toast 6 Titanium to convert cassettes and LPs to digital form, restore the sound quality, and burn to CD or transfer to the iPod.

About Roxio

Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, provides the best selling digital media software in the world. Roxio makes award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing, and its current installed base is in excess of 100 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, in stores with the leading worldwide retailers, through Internet partnerships and also sells its products direct at www.roxio.com.

Roxio's parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC) (http://www.sonic.com) is the leader in digital media software, providing a broad range of interoperable, platform independent software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users, and technology partners. Sonic's products range from advanced DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies used to produce the majority of Hollywood DVD film releases, to the award-winning Roxio- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup solutions that have become the premiere choice for consumers, prosumers and business users worldwide. Sonic's digital media creation engine is the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard.

de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO,
 and has been licensed by major software and hardware manufacturers, including Adobe, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, and many others. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California Marin County (IPA: /məˈrɪn/) is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. As of 2000, the population was 247,289. .

Roxio, Toast, Toast with Jam, Popcorn, Sonic, and Sonic Solutions, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions in the United States and/or other countries. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic under license.

Forward Looking Statements

The above paragraphs of this press release may contain forward looking statements that are based upon current expectations. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties including, among others, the timely introduction and acceptance of new products, costs associated with new product introductions, the transition of products to new hardware configurations and platforms and other factors, including those discussed in the Company's annual and quarterly reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release should be read in conjunction with the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
, Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
 and Registration Statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which contain a more detailed discussion of the Company's business including risks and uncertainties that may affect future results. The Company does not undertake to update any forward looking statements.
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