Charter and Rovi Sign TotalGuide Solution Agreement
07 July 2011 - 10:30PM
Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq:ROVI) today announced an agreement with
Charter Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:CHTR) enabling Charter to
distribute Rovi TotalGuide Solution on Charter's set-top boxes
(STBs), mobile and tablet devices and the Web. In addition, the
multi-year agreement includes a license to the Rovi Remote Record
Scheduling Application for i-Guide and Passport Guide and for the
use of the Rovi interactive program guide patent portfolio across
STBs, Web, and mobile products.
With the Rovi TotalGuide Application for STBs, Charter will be
able to offer its digital customers an advanced search, discovery
and recommendations user experience on set-top boxes already in
homes today. Beyond the set top, the Rovi TotalGuide xD application
can extend and connect Charter's video experience to tablets,
smartphones and PCs.
"To enable our customers to meet ongoing demands for innovative
features, we've rolled out a set of solutions incorporating
advanced search, discovery and recommendation capabilities that can
be deployed in today's cable ecosystem," said Bob Shallow, SVP,
service provider sales, Rovi. "Through this agreement, Charter will
be able to give its customers access to integrated search,
continuous six degrees discovery, recommendations and celebrity
biographies and credits that can enhance their TV watching
experience."
Richard DiGeronimo, Charter's Senior Vice President, Product and
Strategy said, "Through this agreement with Rovi, we broaden our
ability to innovate, enabling greater product development
flexibility in a rapidly changing consumer communications and
entertainment marketplace."
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 5,100 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/.
The Rovi Corporation logo is available at
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Forward Looking Statements
All statements contained herein that are not statements of
historical fact, including statements that use the words "will" or
"is expected to," or similar words that describe the Company's or
its management's future plans, objectives, or goals, are
"forward-looking statements" and are made pursuant to the
Safe-Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the
actual results of the Company to be materially different from the
historical results and/or from any future results or outcomes
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such
factors are further addressed in the Company's most recent report
on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2011 and such other
documents as are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
from time to time (available at www.sec.gov). The Company
assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in
order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the
date of this release, except as required by law.
CONTACT: Linda Quach
Rovi Corporation
408 562-8504
Linda.Quach@rovicorp.com
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