Grundig Selects Rovi Guide CE to Improve Customer Experience
April 30 2015 - 3:01AM
Business Wire
New Technology Brings Best-in-Class Search and
Recommendations for European Consumers
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today announced that Grundig, a
worldwide leading supplier of entertainment electronics, has
renewed its licensing and product agreement with Rovi. As part of
the agreement Grundig will use the latest release of Rovi Guide CE
to power enhanced search and recommendations in their LED TVs
manufactured in 2015 and distributed across Europe. This
arrangement marks the first license of the Rovi Guide CE with the
integration of Rovi Search and Recommendations Services.
Rovi Guide CE, called “Web EPG” and accessible via the icon
“TV-Guide” on the main user menu or via the “Guide” button on
Grundig TV remote controls, is designed to increase entertainment
consumption and consumer satisfaction. Through the combination of
Rovi Video entertainment metadata and Rovi Search and
Recommendations Services, this advanced discovery solution will
enable consumers to find the content that interests them across a
range of sources, including broadcast programming, premium
over-the-top (OTT) entertainment and catch-up TV.
“We strive to deliver TVs that provide simple, immersive
discovery interfaces for our consumers,” said Yasin Gündüz, head of
global TV product management Grundig at ARCELIK AS. “Our continued
collaboration with Rovi enables us to deliver the best possible
experience for our consumers, and we are excited to now license
Rovi Guide CE with enhanced Search and Recommendations Services to
further improve content discovery for our customers across all of
our brands.”
“Consumers today are presented with limitless content choices as
the number of channels and services soar,” said Omar Javaid, senior
vice president and general manager, discovery and platforms, Rovi.
“By integrating the Rovi Guide CE with Rovi Search and
Recommendations Services, Grundig is improving the customer
experience by providing consumers with among the most advanced
entertainment experiences possible, with highly accurate
recommendations that give quick access to desired content. As
competition for consumer interest increases, entertainment
discovery is fast becoming a new and crucial area of
differentiation across the TV industry.”
The latest updates to Rovi Guide CE provide a new personalized
home screen and harness the Rovi Knowledge Graph Engine – a
semantic database of named entities – where the relationships
between these entities are dynamically mapped for predictive and
intelligent results for search and discovery. Rovi Guide CE offers
consumers a truly intelligent experience that provides consumers
with access to their favorite entertainment content across linear
and OTT TV.
About Grundig Intermedia
Grundig Intermedia GmbH is one of the world’s leading suppliers
of entertainment electronics and household appliances. Since 2007,
Grundig Intermedia GmbH has been part of Arcelik A.S., one of the
leading companies within the listed Koç-Group, a conglomerate
active throughout the world. At its Headquarters in Nuremberg,
Germany Grundig Intermedia employs about 140 people working in
Marketing, Sales, Product and Quality Management, Design and
Service. Worldwide, the Grundig brand employs an additional 1,600
people in production, R+D and Sales. The company has its roots in
the traditional German company Grundig AG, which in its time was
famous around the world for radios and televisions. Grundig
Intermedia assumed responsibility for the core activity of
entertainment technology and then expanded this with small and
large household appliances. Today the company is organised into
three product groups – Consumer Electronics, small domestic
appliances and large household appliances. Its portfolio includes
products ranging from MP3 players, to 65-inch UHD televisions, to
hair styling devices, vacuum cleaners and kitchen machines as well
as ovens, dishwashers and washing machines. Grundig has been the
first, official technology partner of the German Bundesliga since
2011. For more information, please visit www.grundig.de.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi is leading the way to a more personalized entertainment
experience. The company’s pioneering guides, metadata and
recommendations continue to drive program search and navigation on
millions of devices across the globe. With a new generation of
cloud-based discovery capabilities and emerging solutions for
interactive advertising and audience analytics, Rovi is enabling
premier brands worldwide to increase their reach, drive consumer
satisfaction and create a better entertainment experience across
multiple screens. Rovi holds over 5,000 issued or pending patents
worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Discover
more about Rovi at Rovicorp.com.
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Rovi CorporationStacey Hurwitz,
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