AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week during the IBC Conference in Amsterdam, Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq:ROVI) will be demonstrating several of its products that enable its customers – consumer electronics manufacturers, television service providers, and entertainment web portals – to deliver a robust digital entertainment experience to consumers.
By bringing together entertainment data, media networking and sharing capabilities and guidance technology, Rovi provides a simple, personalized digital experience that helps customers create deeper entertainment connections for their users.
- With Rovi TotalGuide ™, CE manufacturers can offer simple and intuitive access to multiple content types – broadcast, premium, Internet-based and personal – and enhance the consumer experience through rich TV programming data and extended multimedia capabilities.
- The Rovi Connected Platform helps CE and customer premises equipment manufacturers and distributors speed time to market and differentiate their offerings by enabling them to build networked products that store, discover, and play back personal and Internet-based content.
- The Rovi Personal Media Manager is a digital media management software application that allows consumers to more easily clean, stream and share their digital media, regardless of source or location. With advanced identification tools and extensive entertainment metadata, Personal Media Manager enables consumers to find and enjoy their music, movies, photos and other digital media.
In addition to the company's exhibit at IBC, Rovi is working with STMicroelectronics and Wyplay to display collaborative solutions for the delivery of entertainment content worldwide.
- Rovi is showcasing its TotalGuide solution ported to STMicroelectronics' STi7105 platform, as an advanced reference design for set-top boxes.
- With Wyplay, Rovi is demonstrating a CE HTML web implementation of an electronic program guide.
If you are planning to attend IBC, Rovi will be located at 5.B20. For more information on Rovi's technology solutions showcased at IBC, go to or contact Linda Quach, linda.quach@rovicorp.com.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi Corporation is focused on revolutionizing the digital entertainment landscape by delivering solutions that enable consumers to intuitively connect to new entertainment from many sources and locations. The company also provides extensive entertainment discovery solutions for television, movies, music and photos to its customers in the consumer electronics, cable and satellite, entertainment and online distribution markets. These solutions, complemented by industry leading entertainment data, create the connections between people and technology, and enable them to discover and manage entertainment in an enjoyable form.
Rovi holds over 4,600 issued or pending patents worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Rovi can be found at http://www.rovicorp.com/.
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CONTACT: Rovi Corporation Linda Quach +011 408 562 8504 linda.quach@rovicorp.com Text 100 Public Relations Tove Carroll +44 020 8846 0744 tove.carroll@text100.co.uk