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Roxio Online

Roxio announced an easy way to share photos with its new Roxio Online with PhotoShow web service today.  The new online platform lets users create slideshows and post images and video directly online for quick sharing with friends and family located around the globe.  The service is free to test and for those that want a little extra, the Roxio Online premium service is priced at US$39.99 a year and available now at Roxio.

Jump below for the full press release from Roxio.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Roxio(R), a division of Sonic Solutions(R) (NASDAQ:SNIC) , the leader in digital media software, today launched Roxio Online with PhotoShow(R), a new Web service that enables families to quickly and simply turn their personal photos and video clips into engaging multimedia slideshows that can be shared privately with close friends and family. Whether it is photos or footage shot during a recent vacation, college graduation or other important family event, Roxio Online makes it easy and fun to turn these personal memories into an expressive multimedia slideshow complete with rich special effects and transitions, creative animations and captions, and a professional soundtrack. Families and others can begin to create unique personal stories that can be shared and enjoyed on PCs, DVDs, TVs, handhelds, and popular social media sites, all through a free subscription available at: http://www.roxio.com/go/online.

“There is nothing more gratifying than being able to share the joys of our lives with the ones closest to us,” said Matt DiMaria, general manager of the Roxio division of Sonic Solutions. “With busy schedules and physical distances, photos and videos play an integral part in how we communicate in today’s digital world. Roxio Online brings families together by not only making it easier than ever to create unique stories to instantly share with relatives across the globe but also by providing a complete storytelling platform that appeals to any memory keeper.”

Consumers can test-drive the service and create PhotoShow presentations for free, and then subscribe to the premium service, which unlocks a host of additional creation and sharing capabilities. Premium subscribers are able to select from over 150 one-click themes that suit any occasion, enhance their story with over 500 animated graphics, add a commentary with more than 40 different title and caption treatments, and then pick the perfect accompanying soundtrack from more than 400 licensed professional music tracks. To see a visual demonstration of Roxio Online in action visit: http://www.roxioonline.com/watch/iT5Bp3Ag, or to read about the experience of Dave Habiger, Sonic CEO and president, with PhotoShow go to: http://blog.roxio.com/mymoments/2008/08/making_digital_connections.html.

Bringing authors and viewers together, Roxio Online users can create a free web page with channels dedicated to specific events or occasions and share shows with family and friends by embedding final productions in popular sites like MySpace and Facebook or personal blogs such as Blogger. Users can also add a PhotoShow channel to their MSN, Yahoo, or Google pages or to their iTunes Podcast library. Roxio Online is also the only service that allows users to broadcast shows directly to cable TV, where they appear as a video-on-demand offering. Modern day digital storytellers can also turn their favorite PhotoShow stories into professionally created keepsake DVDs to enjoy and share for years to come.

Pricing and Availability

The Roxio Online premium service is priced at $39.99 a year and available now at http://www.roxio.com/go/online.

About Roxio

Roxio, Sonic’s consumer products group, develops a range of award-winning digital media creation, management, preservation, sharing, and enjoyment applications for home and business users under the Roxio brand. Roxio products offer the perfect blend of ease and power, enabling consumers to achieve professional results from their photo, video, and music projects with minimal effort. Roxio’s flagship applications, Easy Media Creator(R) for the PC and Toast(R) for the Apple Macintosh, are the best-selling products in their respective categories in North American retail.

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