Fujitsu Chooses Sonic MyDVD® and PrimeTime™ for New Media Center PC

Marin County, California – Sonic Solutions [NASDAQ: SNIC] announced today that both Sonic MyDVD 5 and Sonic PrimeTime, the industry's leading applications for DVD creation, are now shipping in Japan as integrated components of Fujitsu Limited's FMV-DESKPOWER C90EW/C Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition PC. The combination of Sonic PrimeTime and Sonic MyDVD allows Fujitsu's customers to easily and quickly burn DVDs of their recorded television programs using the Media Center Edition remote control, and then customize them with powerful features such as integrated video editing, motion-menu backgrounds with animated buttons, chapter points, photo slideshows and more.

"Our decision to partner with Sonic Solutions was an easy one,' said Masahiko Shimada, Manager of the Platform Engineering Department, Personal Systems Business Group at Fujitsu Limited. "Sonic is the world leader in DVD creation, and this combination of products is the perfect complement to our FMV-DESKPOWER C90EW/C PC. With Sonic PrimeTime, our Media Center users can now quickly and easily record their favorite programs to DVD and then add customized effects with comprehensive editing and special design features using Sonic MyDVD.'

The Fujitsu FMV-DESKPOWER C90EW/C Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition PC is designed as a complete home entertainment system that allows users to watch and record television, record and play music, and view and edit photos from the comfort of their sofas. With Sonic PrimeTime, users can take advantage of the PC's "ten foot' user interface with large menus and integrated remote control to browse and select their favorite TV shows and record them to DVDs that can be played back on the vast majority of standard set-top and PC-based DVD players. Sonic MyDVD takes the DVD creation process a step further by allowing users to edit their recorded programs to remove commercials, add titles or special effects, as well as customize their DVDs to give them the pizzazz of Hollywood-style DVDs. In addition, the recorded discs include OpenDVD™ technology, which allows users to re-edit content at any time using Sonic MyDVD, Sonic PrimeTime, or other OpenDVD-enabled applications.

"We are extremely pleased to be working with Fujitsu to bring DVD-burning capabilities to FMV-DESKPOWER C90EW/C PC users who want to save their recorded TV shows, home movies, photos and data to DVD," said Koki Terui, Senior Vice-president of Pacific Rim Operations at Sonic Solutions. "The Fujitsu products with Sonic PrimeTime and Sonic MyDVD bring the latest advances in DVD technology to consumers who want to create Hollywood-quality DVDs at home."



About Sonic PrimeTime

Sonic PrimeTime is the first PC software application that works seamlessly with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition to burn TV shows and other video content to DVD. Like Windows XP Media Center, PrimeTime employs a ‘ten foot' user interface with large menus. The application takes advantage of the Media Center PC's remote control so that a user can browse and select their favorite shows and record them to DVDs that can be played back on standard set-top DVD players and PCs. DVDs recorded by Sonic PrimeTime also include OpenDVD technology so that they can be easily re-edited at a later time.

About Sonic MyDVD

Sonic MyDVD is the leading PC application for consumer DVD creation. With its ability to record analog and digital video (DV) in real-time into MPEG-2 for DVD, Sonic MyDVD is the fastest and easiest way to share treasured video memories with friends and family on DVD discs.

Sonic MyDVD makes it easy to burn high-quality DVDs with integrated video editing, motion-video menus, animated buttons, and DVD slideshows with transitions and soundtracks. Sonic MyDVD also features optimized Direct-to-DVD™ recording which allows users to record their content directly to DVD from a video source connected to the computer's video input in just a few clicks. Sonic MyDVD is also OpenDVD-compliant, enabling previously burned DVDs to be opened, re-edited, updated with new video and photo content, and re-burned to DVD and CD recordable/re-writable media. This enables an entirely new generation of DVD and CD applications, such as video diaries, compilations of family events, up-to-the-minute, customized sales presentations, and more.

About the Fujitsu Media Center Edition PC
The FMV-DESKPOWER C Series (FMVC90EWC) Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC makes it easy for users to play their music and movies on their PC from the comfort of their sofa. Since the screen menus and icons are easily visible from a distance, users can easily switch between menus using the PC's remote control to search, play back and record content. The FMV-DESKPOWER C90EW/C model also comes with the latest AMD Athlon™ 64 processor and an MPEG-2 real-time encoder that provide stable picture reproduction and reduced ghosting for higher quality viewing of movies and TV programs. The internal DVD-R/RW drive, along with Sonic MyDVD and Sonic PrimeTime DVD creation software, allow users to read/write their DVD contents onto discs. The FMV-DESKPOWER C90EW/Calso supports the SD memory card and memory stick, allowing users to import data from digital devices such as a DV camcorder, digital camera and mobile phone.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, highly reliable computing and telecommunications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$38 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com/.

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 MyDVD® and Sonic 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 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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Paul Lefebvre,
Sonic Solutions
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paul_lefebvre@sonic.com

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