Rovi Advances Entertainment Discovery with New Customer Deployment and Interactive Guide Solution at SCTE
October 14 2015 - 8:01AM
Business Wire
Summit Broadband Selects Rovi Passport Guide HD
and Rovi Unveils i-Guide HD
SCTE — Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today announced
Rovi’s first customer for Passport® Guide HD, Summit Broadband, and
introduced i-Guide HD, the company’s newest addition to its line of
interactive program guides. Summit Broadband, a provider of phone,
Internet, and cable TV services for residential and commercial
customers, has selected Rovi’s innovative Passport Guide HD to
deliver advanced entertainment discovery, powered by Rovi’s
entertainment metadata. The addition of Passport Guide HD now
provides Summit Broadband with expanded TV listings and a fresh
design for DVR, search and advanced video-on-demand (VOD)
capabilities.
Continuing to bring innovation to its program guides, Rovi also
unveiled its new i-Guide HD solution, which provides a
high-resolution, wide-screen design for a full HD experience. The
newly designed i-Guide HD supports applications to help service
providers extend customer engagement, while offering the same
easy-to-use navigation consumers are familiar with. It also
features new HD Auto-Tune, which ensures viewers are watching their
favorite shows in the highest possible resolution.
“Rovi’s history in delivering proven guide technologies are a
natural fit for Summit Broadband as we continue to shape the
entertainment viewing experience in the homes of our subscribers,”
said Mark Lipford, COO, Summit Broadband. “Our customers will enjoy
using the advanced features offered by Rovi’s Passport Guide HD
such as its streamlined HD interface, intuitive design, and robust
discovery capabilities.”
“As more entertainment options become available to consumers,
service providers like Summit Broadband look to Rovi to help them
differentiate offerings with high-quality solutions in order to
remain competitive,” said Sarah Gaeta, vice president and general
manager, guides products, Rovi. “Rovi continues to evolve our
renowned interactive program guide to arm our customers with the
advanced capabilities to deliver the best entertainment discovery
experience to millions of households.”
Rovi’s program guides reach millions of service provider
households and devices with its relationships with market-leading
cable, satellite and broadband providers, networks, consumer
electronics brands, and media and Internet-related companies
worldwide. The company’s innovative, award-winning guides help
consumers navigate broadcast, time-shifted, over-the-top (OTT), and
video-on-demand (VOD) content on multiple devices and
platforms.
Rovi will showcase its comprehensive suite of discovery and
monetization solutions during SCTE 2015 in Booth
#837.
About Summit Broadband
Summit Broadband, a telecommunications provider, offers phone,
high-speed Internet, cable TV and data transport services to both
commercial and residential customers throughout Southwest Florida
and Central Florida. The company also offers dark fiber transport
to enterprise and carrier customers. Summit Broadband now supplies
uncompressed high-definition television and the fastest Internet
service available with speeds of 1,000 megabits per second (1
gigabit per second). In 2013 Summit Broadband merged with US Metro,
Marco Island Cable, and NuVu — offering businesses and consumers a
nearly 500-mile fiber-optic backbone connecting South Florida, West
Florida and Central Florida. For more information, visit
http://www.summit-broadband.com.
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.
Forward-Looking Statements
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historical fact, including statements that use the words “will” or
“is expected to,” or similar words that describe Rovi Corporation’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 Rovi Corporation 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 Rovi Corporation’s most recent
report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2015, and such
other documents as are filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission from time to time (available at www.sec.gov). Rovi
Corporation 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.
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