Sonic DVDit! Wins Five Star Rating From PC Magazine; DVDit! Tops All Competition With Perfect Score.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MARIN COUNTY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 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. announced today that Sonic DVDit!, the easiest way to publish on 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. , has received a perfect score of five stars in a review just conducted by PC Magazine, the industry's leading PC publication. The November 7th issue of the magazine, which hit the streets this week, commended Sonic DVDit! for its intuitiveness, flexibility, compatibility, and ease of use. DVDit! outperformed all other products reviewed in this special DVD review section, reinforcing the product's position as the clear leader in DVD authoring systems for video publishers. With over 150,000 copies of DVDit! shipped, this excellent review seconds what customers everywhere are demonstrating with their purchases, that DVDit! is the best choice for desktop multimedia publishing. With over an 80 percent market share, DVDit! has outsold out·sold v. Past tense and past participle of outsell. all other DVD authoring systems combined and is the bundle of choice for leading OEMs including Avid, Dazzle, Matrox, Media 100, Melco, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output Data, Sigma Designs, Sony, and others. Sonic Solutions' DVDit! was the first DVD-authoring program for small businesses and consumers," writes Jan Ozer, reviewer for PC Magazine. "Polished and complete, DVDit! is suitable for simple to sophisticated projects and presents a very high bar for other products in this class." The complete review can be found on the ZDNet-PC Magazine web page at the following url: http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/pipreviews/0,9836,378320,00.html. In addition to the exceptional score in the PC Magazine review, DVDit! has also been honored with DV magazine's Award of Excellence, Millimeter magazine's Tommy Award for Innovation, Television Broadcast's Pick of Show for NAB 2000, Video System magazine's Vanguard Award, and more. "A perfect score in PC magazine is an honor, and confirms that DVDit! is a top-notch product," said James Manning, DVDit! Product Manager at Sonic Solutions. "We know that PC magazine's extensive readership of video enthusiasts is a savvy group eager for DVD solutions. We are extremely pleased to have been introduced to them in such a positive light." "Sonic DVDit! is a fantastic application and it allows us to turn video, 3D animation, and even scanned documents into totally interactive DVDs very easily and in record time," said Stuart Gold, Owner/Director of Shadow and Light Productions, a Berkeley, California-based computer animation and DVD company specializing in the creation of forensic animation forensic animation n. recreation of events by computerized animation to display to the jury (or judge without a jury) what apparently happened in an accident or crime. and multimedia. "We can quickly create DVD titles for attorneys that are used to present and support key expert witness testimony in the courtroom environment. This really does provide a key new technology in the forensic venue, and a powerful new way to easily display information. DVDit! is unparalleled in its ease of use and speed." Many of Sonic's OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners have also responded enthusiastically to the news. "This is great news for us, and it's only natural that Sonic should receive the top rating from one of the industry's most important PC publications," said Spiro Plagakis, Vice-president of Sales and Marketing, at Matrox. "Matrox has bundled Sonic DVDit! with our video products for over a year, and I know firsthand the value this product brings to our customers." About Sonic DVDit! Sonic DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple and straightforward user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD multiplexing technology, DVDit! gives video professionals, graphic designers, artists and video enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PC. DVDit! is compatible with AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. and QuickTime video files, allowing users to incorporate virtually any video content -- from DV to D1 -- into DVDit! projects. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, building DVD titles is as easy as selecting a menu background and then dragging and dropping an AVI, QuickTime or MPEG-2 video file. DVDit! automatically builds buttons and interactivity, multiplexes and formats content and records to CD-R (CD-Recordable) A writable CD technology using a type of compact disc that can be recorded, but not erased (CD-Rs are "write once" discs). CD-R discs are used to master CD-ROMs, to back up data and to make copies of data for distribution. or DVD-R (DVD-Recordable) A write-once (read only) DVD disc for both movies and data endorsed by the DVD Forum. DVD-Rs are often called "DVD Dash Rs" or "DVD Minus Rs" to distinguish them from the competing "Plus R" format (see DVD+R). for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or DVD-equipped PCs. DVDit! can create interactive titles in DVD-Video, DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. , and cDVD(TM) formats. About Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq:SNIC SNIC Singapore National Institute of Chemistry SNIC Snow and Ice Clearance SNIC Sub-Network Independent Convergence (functions) SNIC Standard Network Interface Card ) Based 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. , Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing. Sonic DVDit! (http://www.dvdit.com) is the first application for DVD authoring targeted at videographers and corporate video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture, encoding and media production systems. Sonic DVD Creator and DVD Fusion are the most widely-used systems for professional DVD publishing, and are installed worldwide at major studios, post production facilities and in corporate marketing departments. SonicStudio HD is the leading digital workstation for preparing audio for release on CD and the first for creating content for the new DVD-Audio format. Sonic is also a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format. Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo and DVDit! are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice. The above paragraphs of this press release 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. and quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. 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. |
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