Sonic MyDVD is the world’s first DVD recording and editing application. It allows you to record – in real time – from a video source such as a camcorder or VHS deck, and create DVDs or VideoCDs that will play on set-top and PC-based players. MyDVD also allows you to create photo slideshows.

MyDVD is template-driven. That means you select a style for the menus, buttons and text, and this sets up the look for the entire DVD or VideoCD. Buttons and text appear in fixed positions on the screen, and MyDVD automatically arranges objects in the menus so that they look great without the need for "creative input" from the user. MyDVD also sets up the menu navigation for you, and exposes none of these complexities. MyDVD allows simple capture, in MPEG format, to hard disk. Perhaps the coolest feature of MyDVD is that it allows you to edit your DVD or VideoCD without having to keep the original video and audio on the hard disk. I create a disk with MyDVD, put it in my PC-DVD drive and start MyDVD. The DVD opens up as a project which I can modify however I want - add video, delete, change style, change text, add menus etc. Then, I can burn it back to the same (rewritable) DVD. In short, you get a dynamically updatable disc. No other company has this technology right now.

DVDit! allows you to create a different look for each menu, and enables you to place menu objects wherever you would like on the screen. More control is given to you to assign navigation commands manually. DVDit! PE supports DLT, allowing users to professionally replicate their titles; and also supports Dolby Digital. We know that users of DVDit! will typically want to encode their video using other tools, and so DVDit! does not burden you with the cost of a hardware encoder.

We believe that most MyDVD 2.3 users will not want to "upgrade" to Version 5.0, but would most likely use both products side-by-side. MyDVD 5 is restricted to running on Windows XP and is currently only available in English. To make it easy to decide, Sonic has some special offers you may want to take advantage of:

-Existing users of MyDVD 2.x running Windows XP will be able to purchase MyDVD 5, MyDVD 5 Deluxe, or MyDVD Studio Deluxe 5 at a special upgrade price on the Sonic eStore. If you are using earlier versions of Microsoft Windows such as 98SE, or a language other than English, you can upgrade to MyDVD Plus 4, or MyDVD Video Suite 4 which supports these environments.

-You can upgrade to DVDit! 2.5.5 today through the Sonic eStore. This path truly is an upgrade, and provides you with significant additional authoring functionality, using an interface with which you are already familiar.

We expect that many people will want to preserve their treasured family memories on DVD. For most people, that may mean transferring video content currently saved on short-lived VHS tapes over to more permanent DVDs. For others, it may be quickly recording content directly to DVD from their camcorder or creating cinematic photo slideshows. MyDVD makes the DVD medium a very effective replacement for VHS, and significantly expands the range of applications for video. That’s because content created with MyDVD is easy to edit, change and update.

From the Help menu in the MyDVD 4 application, choose "Check for new version".

- It is the first DVD recording product. That is, it allows you to record directly from video, in real time, direct to a DVD or VideoCD.

- It is the first and only product to offer OpenDVD™. It makes use of special technology, in the form of an “egg” that is stored on every DVD or VideoCD, to allow DVDs or VideoCDs to be re-opened within MyDVD, or other Sonic Powered™ applications, and change the content on the disc.

- It is the fastest way to create a DVD or VideoCD. A title can be created literally in minutes.