Sonic Solutions

Sonic Solutions was up to its acquisition by Rovi Corporation in 2010, a software company headquartered in Novato, California. In addition to offices in the United States, the company also maintained offices in Europe and Asia.

History

Sonic Solutions was founded by former employees of Lucasfilm, which ( another well-known spin-off from the project is Pixar ), the audio processing system SoundDroid developed as part of the Droidworks project.

Sonic developed and marketed The Sonic system for the processing of music, restoration and CD preparing a professional, non-linear digital audio workstation.

Sonic got 1996 for the technical achievements of an Emmy Award. That same year, the company worked with various Hollywood studios and manufacturers of consumer electronics to present the first commercial DVD production system. Sonic expanded its business model to corporate software scopes with imaginary for professional use DVD authoring systems (Sonic Scenarist and Sonic DVD Producer) as well as to retail and OEM DVD Software applications for personal use ( DVDit, MyDVD and RecordNow ).

2002 Sonic divided the entire audio division in the company Sonic Studio, LLC, from, to focus solely on the DVD market, company software and the licensing of IP and source code. The company known clients include Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe and Avid. The middleware and embedded chips continued to be used, among others, Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Scientific Atlanta / Cisco, Intel and Marvel.

Sonic expanded in 2000 in the area for Endandwender software ( image, audio and video editing ), with about 50 million copies were sold per year over the Internet and more than 15,000 retail stores, including Apple Store, Walmart, Costco, Best Buy, Target, Dixon's and Media Mart. In its sector Sonic commanded a market share of 64%.

Since its IPO IPO has produced over 1.5 billion dollars in revenue, and thus was named one of Forbes, Fortune and Business Week for various reasons, one of the fastest growing companies in the Digital Media division.

2005 Sonic began to convert its end-user software business on the SAAS model.

By 2010, Sonic was one of the largest providers of pay - movies over the internet and CE devices, in partnership with major film studios. Sonic held the rights to the films and put the cloud access as white product provider.

Acquisitions

Among the acquisitions of the Sonics Group include the Desktop and Mobile Devision (DMD ) of VERITAS Software Corporation in 2002, Roxio in 2003 ( end-user software for Windows and Mac OS), Simple Star ( Creation of internet stuff ) and CinemaNow in 2008 (delivery of digital movies ).

In October 2010, the company took over DivX Inc. for a stock exchange transaction of $ 326 million U.S. dollars to expand into the online video market.

Sale

On 23 December, the Rovi Corporation declared the intention of the company aufzukaufen.Die for 720 million U.S. dollars acquisition was a security business for nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars. According to an article in Business Insider in February 2011 by Sonic gave a maximum yield of a publicly traded company on the NYSE or NASDAQ. Both stocks rose on the deal announcement, creating a 66 % premium above market. The acquisition which completed early the next year. The acquisition was completed in March 2011.

Products

Endandwender

  • Creator
  • Toast
  • CinePlayer
  • Easy VHS to DVD
  • MyDVD
  • CinemaNow
  • Photo Show
  • DivX Plus Software

Professional users

  • Scenarist
  • CineVision
  • BD PowerStation
  • MainConcept Reference

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