Roxio's Easy CD Creator To Be Bundled With TDK Drives
Solution Aimed at the Enterprise Market
Santa Clara, California - (November 14, 2002) -Roxio, Inc., (Nasdaq: ROXI) The Digital Media Company®, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world, announced today it will bundle Roxio's Easy CD Creator® 5.3 Basic software with TDK's 40x CD ReWriter (Model AI-401240N). The innovative CD Burner will be available soon through TDK resellers as part of the company's new Solution Provider Program in North and South America. Easy CD Creator 5.3 Basic will also be included in a future release of a TDK 48x CD ReWriter.
The bundle, Easy CD Creator's first with TDK will be aimed at the enterprise market, including SOHO, education, medicine, government verticals as well as various systems integrators that supply those
markets.
"TDK represents exceptional quality, universal compatibility,
and reliability, so we are excited to be aligned with them,"
said Roxio's Chris Gorog, President and CEO. "Our burning technology
will provide TDK's enterprise customers with a reliable, easy to
use solution for data storage and backup, along with a variety of
multimedia capabilities."
Easy CD Creator 5.3 Basic offers enterprise customers a variety
of CD and DVD recording options, including drag-and-drop simplicity
through DirectCD and one-step disc duplication through CD Copier.
Customers who want additional CD and DVD burning capabilities can
upgrade to Roxio's full-featured software Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum,
available direct from Roxio at www.roxio.com
or at their local retailer.
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.
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to change without notice.