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Sonic redefines Mac burning yet again with the introduction of Toast® 9 Titanium.   Toast 9 is packed with new features and enhancements that set the standard for burning, watching, listening and sharing digital content on the Mac and beyond. Toast 9 Highlights: Blu-ray Disc Support – Store as many as 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, and hours of high-definition video on a single 50 GB Blu-ray Disc. Mac & PC Data Spanning – Span large files across multiple discs, including Blu-ray Discs, for easy retrieval on any Mac or PC. Watch Life in High-Def – Enabled by a HD/BD plug-in, consumers can burn HD video content to Blu-ray Disc and watch it on their HDTV using any BD player. For consumers who do not own a BD burner or media, the plug-in allows burning high-definition content to standard DVDs. Users can also create HD video projects using footage from AVCHD camcorders or recorded TV shows or movies. Video Editing – Easy removal of unwanted video segments from TiVo, Elgato’s EyeTV, and QuickTime® video files before burning the final project to disc or exporting it to a portable player. Time Savers – Toast 9 includes a variety of innovative features designed to simplify and accelerate the otherwise time consuming and CPU intensive video conversion process. These include Batch DVD-Video conversion to enable consumers to queue multiple video files for use with Roxio’s Fit-to-DVD™ compression technology. The Fit-to-DVD compression technology enables consumers to compress large files to fit on a single layer 4.7 GB disc. Pause and Resume buttons enable users to suspend and later resume a video conversion project, and a Video Quality Preview enables users to review a snippet of converted video to verify video quality prior to initiating a complete file conversion. Listen Library Extension – Build an extensive audio library by capturing any audio playing through the Mac, including Internet audio. Audio Fingerprinting – Automatically identify untagged music files and add song titles, artists and genres, eliminating the mystery of “Track_01″. Perfect Mixes – Create perfect mixes with DJ-style crossfades and transitions, output level adjustments, and enhancement filters. Share On-the-go Entertainment – A new application called Roxio Streamer enables on - the-go consumers to access video recordings stored on a home Mac and stream it to a Wi-Fi connected iPhone or iPod Touch or any internet connected Mac or PC. High Quality Photo Discs – Toast Photo Discs store thousands of full-resolution photos as well as automatically-generated slideshows viewable on Mac and PC. iLife and Aperture – Access iLife® 08 and Aperture™ libraries directly from Toast 9’s Media Browser. Personalized Disc Artwork – Personalize discs with labels, cover art, and inserts. Includes drawing and text editing tools, as well as over 600 clip art images and built-in Google image search. Supports LightScribe and Labelflash™ drives and media to allow users to burn artwork and labels directly to discs.

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New Features and Expanded Device Support Offer Consumers Enhanced Productivity, Ease of Use and Flexibility

Santa Clara, California (August 29, 2007) - Roxio®, a division of Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today released Popcorn 3, the easiest way for Mac users to transfer their favorite personal video entertainment to DVDs and popular portable devices. The latest version of Popcorn comes with innovative time-saving features that streamline and simplify workflow as well as universal video conversion and encoding technology optimized for the broadest selection of devices including iPhone™, iPod®, Apple TV™, BlackBerry®, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 compatibility and exclusive TiVoToGo™ and EyeTV support. With TiVoToGo™ support, consumers can now easily transfer their favorite TV shows to their Mac, create DVDs or move them to a portable device of their choice for on-the-go viewing. Popcorn 3, a universal application, is available in retail stores across North America and direct at www.roxio.com for a suggested price of $49.99. Previous owners of Toast and Popcorn maybe eligible for special upgrade pricing.

“As the proliferation of video sources and playback options continues, we wanted to provide Mac users with the most flexible application for accessing video content anytime, anywhere,” said Vito Salvaggio, vice president, Mac Business Unit, Sonic Solutions. “With the most comprehensive support for the newest portable devices and Roxio’s exclusive support for TiVoToGo™ transfers on the Mac, Popcorn 3 is an ideal solution for consumers who want to enjoy their video whenever and wherever they want.”

Popcorn 3 is equipped with a variety of innovative features designed to simplify and accelerate the otherwise time consuming and CPU intensive video conversion process, including Automatic TiVoToGo™ Conversion that starts encoding as soon as the TV show is transferred to the Mac, Batch DVD-Video Conversion that enables consumers to queue up multiple DVDs for use with Roxio’s Fit-to-DVD™ technology, and Pause and Resume buttons that enable users to suspend a disc copy or video conversion project, work on a different task, then resume when convenient. To reduce time spent on multiple conversions and to ensure end-results meet expectations, Popcorn 3 comes with Video Quality Preview that enables consumers to review a snippet of converted video to check video quality prior to initiating the full encoding process. Popcorn 3 also supports Elgato’s Turbo.264 for faster video encoding. Popcorn 3 users can now create DVD’s up to four hours long, resulting in fewer discs and decreasing the amount of time required for video-project transfer. The application also includes a rich disc labeling application that enables users to create personalized disc labels or print directly onto discs using LightScribe enabled burners and media. Built on the award-winning Toast burning technology, Popcorn 3 continues to provide consumers with a quick and easy way to copy and enjoy their movies on a disc or on-the-go.
About Roxio

Sonic’s Consumer Products Group develops a range of award-winning digital media creation, management, preservation, sharing, and enjoyment applications for home and business users under the Roxio brand. Roxio products offer the perfect blend of ease and power, enabling consumers to achieve professional results from their photo, video, and music projects with minimal effort. Roxio’s flagship applications, Easy Media Creator for the PC and Toast for the Apple Macintosh, are the best-selling products in their respective categories in North American retail.

Roxio’s parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) enables the creation, management, and enjoyment of digital media content through its Hollywood to Home™ products, services and technologies. Sonic’s products range from the advanced authoring systems used to produce Hollywood DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray Disc film releases to the award-winning Roxio®-branded photo, video, music, and digital-media management applications. Sonic’s patented technologies and AuthorScript® media engine are relied upon by leading technology firms to define rich media experiences on a wide array of consumer electronics, mobile devices, set-top players, retail kiosks, and PCs. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.

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Roxio Software Enhances the Rich Media Capabilities of the New BlackBerry Curve Smartphone

Novato, CA(May 7, 2006) — Sonic Solutions^®(NASDAQ: SNIC) today announced it has entered a licensing agreement with Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM, TSX: RIM) to provide a customized version of its Roxio^®Media Manager software application. Roxio Media Manager for BlackBerry^®, which is now shipping with the new multimedia-capable BlackBerry^® Curve^™, introduces a new level of simplicity, allowing users to easily manage, transfer and enhance photos, videos and music between their computer and smartphone. As part of the agreement, Roxio Media Manager will also be available to owners of the BlackBerry Pearl^™ and BlackBerry 8800 series smartphones as part of a future update of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager for those handsets.

“The customized Roxio Media Manager application is a powerful complement to other BlackBerry smartphone features. It enhances the overall mobile experience and makes it easy for users to organize, synchronize and access their music, videos and photos on the new BlackBerry Curve. Our collaboration with Sonic has helped deliver another user-friendly application that further showcases the BlackBerry Curve as an ideal mobile companion for both work and leisure,” said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion.

Roxio Media Manager offers a straightforward user interface and workflow that enables users to easily move content between their computer and the smartphone’s internal or expandable memory storage. The application allows users to easily search for media files on their computer, view and organize them, create MP3 music files from CDs, add audio tags, create smart playlists that allow a song to be used across multiple playlists without duplicating the file on the handset, and convert pictures, music and videos for optimal playback on the BlackBerry Curve. Roxio Media Manager also includes an innovative feature called AutoMix that instantly creates perfect playlists of complementary songs based on a single ‘seed’ song chosen by the user. The media manager also includes Roxio PhotoSuite^® 9 LE, a comprehensive tool that makes it easy to edit pictures and create photo albums. With PhotoSuite, pictures can be cropped, rotated and straightened, and flaws can be fixed by removing redeye or changing the brightness, contrast and saturation levels. Pictures can even be enhanced with color filters and special effects.

“We are extremely pleased to be associated with the BlackBerry brand - a brand recognized throughout the world for its quality and innovation - and enthusiastically support the launch of a product that sets a new benchmark for mobile multimedia enjoyment,”said Dave Habiger, president and CEO, Sonic Solutions. “Our agreement with RIM is a solid endorsement of our technology and enables an ideal alliance for Sonic to advance in the mobile media space.”

Based on the award-winning Easy Media Creator 9, Roxio Media Manager was specifically designed to provide mobile device manufactures and wireless carriers with a powerful PC application that complements and extends their solutions and services with the broadest possible range of digital media capabilities. More information on Media Manager is available at: www.roxio.com/mediamanager.

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Roxio Crunch Provides Effective Way to Enjoy Computer-Based Personal Video in the Living Room and On-the-Go

Santa Clara, California (May 8, 2007) — Roxio^®, a division of Sonic Solutions^® (NASDAQ: SNIC), today released Roxio Crunch^™, a software application for quickly and easily converting computer-based video entertainment for viewing in the living room through Apple TV^™. Supporting a broad range of personal video content including DVD-Video, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and DivX files, Roxio Crunch uses powerful compression technologies and straightforward settings to format video for optimal playback enjoyment. In addition to converting files for Apple TV, Roxio Crunch also enables consumers to view their favorite content on the road with predefined options for output to iPod^® and the soon to be released iPhone^™. The latest addition to Sonic’s Roxio-branded consumer product line, Roxio Crunch for Mac OS X is available today at http://www.roxio.com/. A dual-platform Mac and Microsoft Windows version will be available at retail stores later this quarter.

“Apple TV, iPod and iPhone are part of a new wave of devices that provide consumers with a broader range of options for how and where they enjoy their personal entertainment” said Vito Salvaggio, vice president, Mac Business Unit, Sonic Solutions. “We are pleased to offer consumers an easy way for enjoying all their video content on these exciting new Apple devices.”

Roxio Crunch provides the following features:

• Converts native QuickTime file formats, such as DV, AVI, MOV, and MPEG-4
• Converts non-QuickTime file formats, such as MPEG-2 and DivX
• Converts DVD movies and discs created with Toast, iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, and other DVD authoring applications
• Offers multiple MPEG-4 and H.264 quality settings tailored for use with Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone
• Automatically adds converted video to iTunes library for easy syncing with Apple devices
• Includes batch video file conversion

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