Roxio Brings its Leading Digital Media Software to Mass Merchant Retailers

Roxio Introduces Best Selling Brands, Easy CD Creator and PhotoSuite, As Starter Kit Products

Santa Clara, California - (September 18, 2002) - Roxio, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROXI), the Digital Media Company®, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world, today announced its award-winning digital media software brands, Easy CD Creator and PhotoSuite, will be available this Fall as Starter Kits for retail mass merchant stores including Target and Wal-Mart.

The Easy CD Creator and PhotoSuite Starter Kits are well suited for the mass merchant retail channel, offering consumers easy-to-use software to begin working with and enjoying their digital music, photos and video. Also included with Roxio's Starter Kits are promotional with a suggested retail value of over $100 including Roxio's digital subscription services Roxio-Snapfish for photo, Roxio-Pressplay for music, and Roxio-Audible.com for spoken word as well as, free CDs, CD labels, and other digital media materials that immediately enable consumers to start experiencing the fun of digital media. Along with the Starter Kit versions, Roxio will also offer mass merchants full-featured platinum versions of these products. By further expanding the breadth of Roxio's retail distribution, the company expects to further fuel the growing usage of digital media among consumers while also increasing awareness of the Roxio brand.

Roxio has a complete line of digital media software products for photo, video and audio available at retail for the upcoming holiday season. Roxio will release new versions of its flagship CD recording and photo editing products in the first calendar quarter of 2003, a time when large numbers of consumers typically purchase or upgrade following holiday sales of PC software and hardware.

"Roxio has established a very strong retail capability. The addition of Wal-Mart and Target results in Roxio software now being available at close to 9000 store-fronts in the US and Canada" said Roxio President and CEO Chris Gorog. "We are working closely with our mass merchant partners to offer attractive products geared toward expanding the digital media audience while further strengthening the Roxio brand."

Suggested Retail Pricing:

  • Easy CD Creator Starter Kit - SRP $39.99
  • Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum - SRP $99.95
  • PhotoSuite 4 Starter Kit - SRP $29.99
  • PhotoSuite 4 Platinum - SRP $49.95

Safe Harbor Statement

The matters discussed relating to Roxio in this press release, in particular matters related to Roxio's OEM relationships, include forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including delays in product development, competition in the software industry, and failure to maintain OEM relationships, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Additional information on these and other factors are contained in Roxio's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the SEC on July 1, 2002 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the SEC on November 13, 2002, copies of which are available at the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Roxio assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this press release.

About Roxio

Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, develops and markets the best-selling digital media software in the world. Roxio offers award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing and has an installed base of over 150 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, through leading retailers, through Internet partnerships and through direct sales at www.roxio.com. Roxio's parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) is the leader in digital media software and provides a broad range of software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users and technology partners. Sonic's products range from professional DVD authoring systems and interactive content delivery technologies that are used to produce the majority of Hollywood movies released on DVD, to the award-winning Roxio- and Sonic-branded CD and DVD creation, playback and backup applications that have become the premiere solutions for consumers and business users worldwide. Sonic's AuthorScript® is the de facto standard for CD and DVD burning and formatting and has been licensed by major software and hardware manufacturers, including Adobe, Broadcom, Microsoft, Scientific-Atlanta, Sony, and many others. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.

Sonic, the Sonic logo, Sonic Solutions, Roxio, MyDVD, CineMagic, Plug & Burn, LiveShare, Roxio Easy Media Creator, and AuthorScript are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. Dolby is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic Solutions under license. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.