About Sonic Solutions
Sonic Solutions
® (NASDAQ: SNIC;
http://www.sonic.com) enables the creation, management, and enjoyment of premium and personal 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 and Blu-ray Disc titles to the award-winning Roxio
® -branded photo, video, music, and digital-media management applications, field-proven SDKs and services. Sonic's Premium Content Group, which includes CinemaNow, is helping provide consumers convenient access to Hollywood entertainment for download and enjoyment on a broad range of digital devices. Sonic Solutions is headquartered in Marin County, California.
About CinemaNow
CinemaNow, part of Sonic Solutions
® (NASDAQ: SNIC), delivers high-quality Hollywood movies, TV shows and music videos to users across multiple platforms. CinemaNow is partnered with some of the biggest brands in consumer electronics and digital entertainment including ARCHOS, Dell, EchoStar Communications, Hewlett-Packard, Macrovision, Microsoft, Pioneer, Samsung, Technicolor and TiVo to deliver thousands of video titles directly to consumers. CinemaNow works with more than 250 licensors including 20th Century Fox, Disney, EMI, HDNet, IFC, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Sony, Sundance Channel, Vivendi Entertainment and Warner Bros. For more information:
www.CinemaNow.com.
Products
Download-to-own: Hollywood movies, popular TV shows, and music videos are available for purchase, providing an unlimited viewing period on up to 3 devices. Download-to-own movies are priced from $9.99 to $19.99; TV shows and music videos are priced at $1.99.
Pay-Per-View: Hollywood movies are available for purchase, providing customers a 24 hour window to watch the video. As with all CinemaNow downloads, customers can start watching in minutes or download the file and watch it anytime, anywhere. Pay-Per-View movies are priced between $2.99 and $3.99.
Technology
CinemaNow has been at the technological forefront of digital video distribution since its launch in 1999. CinemaNow created PatchBay™, a proprietary content-on-demand distribution and digital rights management system that powers the CinemaNow Web site and its associated partner platforms. Over the years CinemaNow has been first in several historic milestones including:
- First website to offer Pay-Per-View movies from major studios
- First Download-to-Own service for feature films
- First broadband distributor of high definition (HD) content
- First distributor of Download-to-Own movies from Disney
- First distributor of Burn-to-DVD movies from major studios
CinemaNow's digital entertainment technology powers video stores and content solutions for next generation consumer electronics products including the HP MediaSmart TV, ARCHOS 500 Series portable media players, EchoStar's Dish Network 622 set top box, and the Samsung P2 portable media player (PMP), and will soon appear in Sonic's Roxio Venue™ download application featured on millions of consumer PCs.
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