Macrovision Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ:MVSN), a digital entertainment
technology leader, today at The 2009 Cable Show announced its Connected
Platform solution’s support of tru2way technology, the cable industry’s
platform for enabling interactive video and content services
capabilities in digital TV devices. By deploying the new Connected
Platform solution, consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers of set-top
boxes and TVs now have the ability to develop tru2way-ready multi-room
digital video recorder (DVR) devices that can share recorded television
content as well as personal and premium digital content throughout the
home.
Today’s consumer has access to a nearly infinite source of available
digital entertainment content but once acquired, this content often
stays locked in to a single device. The new Connected Platform solution
enables manufacturers to provide consumers with whole home access to
DVR-recorded content as well as music, video, photos and Internet
content from a variety of locations and DLNA-, UPnP- and
DTCP-IP-compliant devices via a home data network.
"In response to consumer demand for sophisticated home networking
functionality, service providers continue to develop robust multi-room
DVR strategies to build and reinforce their subscriber base,” said Kurt
Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates. "We
recently collected data among U.S. broadband households and of those
surveyed, 43% find multi-room DVR features appealing, and 16% are
willing to pay extra to receive this feature.”
"Consumers want an advanced digital home lifestyle that offers true
interoperability and maximizes the investments that they have made in
their CE products,” said Corey Ferengul, executive vice president of
product management and marketing at Macrovision. "By integrating tru2way
technology into our Connected Platform, we have incorporated an
important industry standard in our solution, enabling digital TV and set
top box manufacturers to bring an even more open and seamless experience
into their products.”
Multi-room DVR functionality is a value-added service that can increase
subscribership for service providers. In addition, the new Connected
Platform solution changes the landscape of the cable market by giving
operators and service providers more choice on how to implement content
sharing capabilities in their infrastructure. Manufacturers also now
have the ability to better target the cable industry by deploying
advanced features based on the tru2way specification.
Macrovision’s Connected Platform includes a complete package of
standards-based development tools and reference designs, designed to
save manufacturers time and money. Providing a rich, graphical user
interface, the solution provides manufacturers with the ability to
develop digital TVs, set-top boxes and DVRs that intuitively manage
consumers’ recorded, personal and premium content.
At the show today (Macrovision booth #1605), Macrovision also announced
its new Passport tru2way solution, a fully integrated interactive
program guide (IPG) for tru2way enabled devices and the availability of
multi-room DVR capabilities for its industry-leading Passport Echo 3.5
and i-Guide A28 IPGs.
The Connected Platform solution with tru2way support is planned for
availability in Q2 2009 in the North America market.
About tru2way
Tru2way technology streamlines the consumer environment. On enabled TVs,
it means fewer wires, fewer remotes, and a really simple setup process.
Tru2way technology provides a common platform that enables retail
devices to receive — in one nationally standard way — the wide variety
of video-on-demand services, interactive program guides, and other
interactive features that cable systems deliver through the many
divergent network technologies, and deliver these cable services through
a variety of retail devices.
About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on providing a uniquely
simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to
businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers
across multiple channels. Macrovision’s technologies are deployed by
companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and
satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific
challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to
their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision’s solutions is a
simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying
digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, media
recognition, interactive programming guides, copy protection and rich
media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television
programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can
be found at http://www.allmusic.com.
Macrovision holds over 4,000 issued or pending patents and patent
applications worldwide.
Macrovision 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
Macrovision can be found at www.macrovision.com.
©Macrovision 2009. Macrovision is a registered trademark of Macrovision
Solutions Corporation. Tru2way is a trademark of Cable Television
Laboratories, Inc. All other brands and product names and trademarks are
the registered property of their respective companies.
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