Plextor Shipping Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 With New 16x DVD+/-R/RW Drive

Plextor Shipping Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 With New 16x DVD+/-R/RW Drive Award-Winning Digital Media Suite and PX-716 DVD+/-R/RW Drives Deliver Rich Functionality and Ease-of-Use SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Roxio, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROXI), provider of the best selling digital media software in the world, announced today that Plextor, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment for professionals, consumers, and enterprises, has selected Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 Basic DVD Edition software to ship with their new PX-716 series 16X DVD+/-R/RW recorders, providing customers with an integrated solution for all their digital media needs. The PX-716 series of drives, bundled with Easy Media Creator 7, are currently available at North American retailers and are available via the Plextor website. Easy Media Creator 7 Basic DVD Edition is shipping with the Plextor PX-716UF external and PX-716A internal 16X DVD+/-R/RW drives, as well as the recently announced PlexWriter PX-716SA internal Serial ATA drive. Each of these drives is a 9-in-1 DVD/CD burner that supports 4X DVD+R Double Layer, 16X DVD+R, and 16X DVD-R Writing; 8X DVD+RW and 4X DVD-RW Rewriting; and 16X max DVD reading; as well as high-speed 48X CD-R writing, 24X CD-RW rewriting, and 48X max CD reading. "Our latest 16X DVD drives are specifically designed for the consumer who demands the highest level of performance, convenience, and dependability from their CD/DVD burners," said Howard Wing, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Plextor. "The combination of Roxio's feature-rich Easy Media Creator 7 software with our PX-716 drives offers our customers the most complete, straightforward and flexible solution for all their digital media needs." The combination of Plextor's PX-716 series of drives and Roxio's award-winning software will ensure reliable, high-quality results across a broad spectrum of uses including data, music, photo, and video projects. Using Easy Media Creator 7 Double Layer capabilities, these drives will enable users to burn nearly twice the amount of data (from 4.7GB to 8.5GB), or record more than three hours of MPEG-2 (DVD-quality) video content on a single DVD+R DL disc more quickly and easily than was possible on previous DVD drives. "We are pleased to be expanding our relationship with Plextor, a company known for product innovation, performance and quality," said Dave Cornella, Director of OEM Business, Roxio. "We believe that Plextor's decision to include Easy Media Creator 7 Basic DVD Edition with their most advanced series of drives to date will provide customers with an incredibly high level of functionality, versatility and reliability." About Roxio Easy Media Creator(TM) 7 Basic DVD Edition Roxio Easy Roxio Media Creator 7 represents the realization of Roxio's vision to bring together its complete line of next generation, uncompromised photo, video, music, burning, and authoring applications to deliver the first and only comprehensive, integrated digital media suite for the PC. Seamlessly combining the improved burning suite of Easy CD & DVD Creator(TM), with best-of-breed PhotoSuite(R) 7 Platinum, VideoWave(R) 7 Professional, and online music service Napster(R), Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 enables consumers to take complete control of their digital lives. The product has garnered worldwide acclaim from the industry and captured over a dozen awards for product excellence including editor's choice honors from CNET, PC Magazine, and EMedia. About Plextor Plextor Corp. is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment for professionals, consumers, and enterprises. Headquartered in Silicon Valley since 1990, Plextor has introduced generations of award-winning products, including digital video converters and CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and DVD+/-R/RW optical disk drives. Plextor is privately owned by Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of advanced technology hardware and precision electronic equipment headquartered in Japan. About Roxio Roxio, Inc. provides the best selling digital media software in the world and owns Napster(R), the world's most recognized brand in online music. Roxio makes award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing. Roxio's family of products includes category-leading products Roxio Easy Media Creator(TM), Easy CD & DVD Creator(TM), Digital Media Suite(R), Easy CD Creator(R) (Windows) and Toast(R) (Macintosh) for CD/DVD burning, PhotoSuite(R) for digital photography, and VideoWave(R) for digital video. Roxio's current installed base is in excess of 100 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, in stores with the leading worldwide retailers, through Internet partnerships and also sells its products direct at www.roxio.com. Napster has content agreements with the five major record labels, as well as hundreds of independents. Napster's catalog of online music delivers access to more than 1,000,000 tracks spanning all genres and artists from Eminem to Miles Davis. NOTE: Roxio, the Roxio tagline, Roxio Easy Media Creator, Easy CD & DVD Creator, Digital Media Suite, Easy CD Creator, PhotoSuite, VideoWave, Toast and Napster are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Roxio, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks used are owned by their respective owners. Source: Roxio, Inc. CONTACT: Elizabeth Olson of Roxio, Inc., +1-408-367-5207, or Elizabeth.Olson@roxio.com Web site: http://www.roxio.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment