Sonic Solutions, a digital media software company, provides various interoperable, platform-independent software tools and applications for creative professionals, business and home users, and technology partners worldwide. The company’s Professional Products Group offers professional-level hardware and software authoring solutions for creating packaged media releases in DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, HD DVD, and BD formats. This division’s products include Scenarist Workgroup, SD-series and CineVision video and audio encoders, DVDit, DVDit Pro, and eDVD, which it sells under Sonic brand name. It also provides content development technology, products, and services that enable professional DVD-ROM publishers to create interactivity and seamless Internet connectivity for DVD-Video titles. The company’s Roxio Division offers various digital media software application products under the Roxio brand name. Its consumer applications include Backup MyPC, CinePlayer, Easy DVD Copy, MyDVD, PhotoSuite, Popcorn, RecordNow!, Roxio Easy Media Creator, Sonic DigitalMedia Studio, Sonic PrimeTime, Toast, VideoWave, and other products. The company sells and markets these products through product bundling arrangements with original equipment manufacturer suppliers of related products, as well as volume licensing programs, its Webstore, and in retail channels. Sonic Solutions’ Advanced Technology Division develops licenses, and supplies software and software components under the AuthorScript, CinePlayer and Roxio brand names to PC application and consumer electronics developers. Its products are used in creating digital audio and video titles; recording data files; editing video programs; playing DVD, HD DVD, and BD discs; managing digital media on a computer or consumer electronic device file system; editing and adjusting digital photographs and other images; and backing up the information contained on hard disks. The company was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Novato, California.