Rovi Enhances TV Program Guide With Remote DVR, VOD Search
Rovi plans to add Web-based DVR scheduling, video-on-demand search, and whole-home VOD in the next versions of its Passport interactive program guide. The company, previously called Macrovision...
View ArticleRovi Markets Media Discovery And Connectivity For The Car
Rovi Corp. introduces a digital media platform designed to help automotive OEM and aftermarket manufacturers build car infotainment systems, with the ability to recognize and share digital media with...
View ArticleTV Guide Widget Goes Live On Samsung HDTVs
Rovi Corp. has launched its TV Guide widget on Samsung HDTV’s Yahoo! TV Widget Engine platform, providing viewers with a snapshot of programming for 28 of the most popular television channels. The...
View ArticleWidevine To Provide Rovi With Digital Entertainment Streaming Solutions
At CES, Widevine announced that it will be collaborating with Rovi Corp. to make Widevine’s adaptive streaming, interactive DVD/Blu-ray features and DRM technologies available in CE devices powered by...
View ArticleRovi Corp Q4 Results Beat Estimates
The digital entertainment technology firm posted better-than-expected quarterly results, helped by double-digit growth in all its primary vertical markets. Revenue at the company rose 17 percent to...
View ArticleRovi Launches ‘Media Manager’ Software For Consumers’ Home Networks
Compatible with Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems, Rovi’s Personal Media Manager is designed as a brandable companion application for set-top boxes and other consumer electronics, as well...
View ArticleRovi Music Database Powers Rolling Stone Site
The Rovi music database will provide Wenner Media’s RollingStone.com with metadata for some 1.8 million albums, including artwork and track information. Rolling Stone’s use of the Rovi music database...
View ArticleSoftware Companies Enhance Blu-ray Players, Cable Boxes
From The Cable Show in Los Angeles: Related Content Database (RCDb) announces a slate of partnerships to bring new features and monetization opportunities to cable boxes and Blu-ray players. Among the...
View ArticleRovi, TDG Host Events On Understanding Video Piracy
Rovi Corp. and research firm The Diffusion Group (TDG) are embarking on a roadshow next week to present new data on the consumer copying of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, as well as peer-to-peer downloading...
View ArticleRovi In Tech Licensing Pact With Apple
Rovi Corp. announced in a regulatory filing today that it had entered into a multi-year agreement with Apple, whereby the digital device maker will license unspecified intellectual property from the...
View ArticleStudios, Cable Firms, Service Providers Launch Digital Entertainment Registry
The Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) aims to simplify consumer transactions for digital entertainment with an identification standard for content that’s functionally similar to the UPC code for...
View ArticleRovi To Acquire Sonic in $720M Deal
In a combination of major technology providers for digital entertainment distribution, Rovi Corp. announced late on Dec. 22 that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sonic Solutions in a...
View ArticleRovi Launches ‘Media Cloud’ for Connected Devices, Services
By utilizing Rovi’s new Media Cloud service, electronics manufacturers, service providers, and other application developers are able to integrate the Rovi’s entertainment-focused Web services — such as...
View ArticleRovi and Sonic: From Content Delivery to Discovery
By Mel Lambert The recent acquisition of Sonic Solutions underscores Rovi Corp.’s continuing transition from a content protection company — marketing means of discouraging the illegal consumption of...
View ArticleIrdeto Acquires Rovi’s BD+ Technology for Blu-ray Protection
Software security company Irdeto is enhancing its content protection solutions for Hollywood studios with its acquisition of BD+ technology for Blu-ray from Rovi Corp. Irdeto announced that it would...
View ArticleRovi Files Patent Suit Against Hulu
Rovi Corp. has filed suit against Hulu in a Delaware federal court, alleging that the online video site infringes Rovi’s patents for electronic programming guides. Neither Hulu, whose owners are...
View ArticleEntertainment ID Registry Gains Support
Major media and entertainment companies backing the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) announced on Wednesday that they have begun to integrate the media identification and tracking system into their...
View ArticleA Quick Re-Cap of the 2nd Screen Summit
If you didn't get a chance to join us in Santa Monica on Wednesday, you missed a great program of 300+ industry players interacting in panels throughout the day.The keynote was presented by Bill...
View ArticleMore Thoughts on Metadata and the Second Screen
I helped to host a webinar on metadata today that was produced by MESA and Rovi, and a huge segment of the questions asked were about second screen and social TV. What kind of metadata is needed to...
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