Rovi and MStar Team to Deliver a More Advanced Streaming Video Experience
June 06 2012 - 7:30AM
COMPUTEX 2012 -- Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq:ROVI)
today announced plans for its DivX® Plus Streaming technology to be
integrated into MStar System-on-a Chip (SoC) platforms for Smart
Digital TVs (DTVs). The collaboration with MStar Semiconductor,
Inc., a leading semiconductor company for display and digital home
solutions, continues the industry support for DivX Plus Streaming™
to enable consumer electronics manufacturers to more rapidly
release DTVs that support the feature-rich adaptive streaming
solution. Rovi will demonstrate DivX Plus Streaming at the Rovi
booth at COMPUTEX, June 5-9, Taipei World Trade Center, Hall 3
(#G0436).
"Rovi's close working relationship with MStar, a noted industry
leader in DTV platforms, not only adds to the momentum for DivX
Plus Streaming but also our traction with technology leaders in the
Greater China region," said Matt Milne, executive vice president,
worldwide sales and marketing, Rovi Corporation. "Importantly, our
expanded relationship with MStar should help accelerate the
availability of a dramatically improved over-the-top entertainment
experience for consumers."
The planned integration between DivX Plus Streaming and MStar's
popular platform would enable consumer electronics manufacturers to
deliver a full-featured over-the-top multimedia entertainment
experience. Lightweight and easy to deploy, DivX Plus Streaming
offers support for 1080p video resolution, subtitles, multiple
language tracks, and trick-play functions such as smooth fast
forward and rewind that have historically only been associated with
entertainment on Blu-ray Discs. DivX Plus Streaming expands the
value of the already popular DivX Plus® HD Certification program,
which brings these same advanced multimedia features to 'download
to own' video content.
"DivX Plus Streaming further enhances the advanced digital
entertainment features of MStar SoCs and the other Rovi digital
entertainment solutions that our platforms currently support," said
Kevin Kang, vice president of sales and marketing, MStar. "Rovi
technologies help further our mandate to continually push the
envelope and extend the capabilities of our processor family to
address our customers' needs for exceptional performance."
MStar has previously integrated a range of Rovi solutions onto
MStar's platforms, including DivX technology, the Rovi
Entertainment Store and Rovi TotalGuide™. The collaboration between
Rovi and MStar is aimed at helping to streamline and expedite
development of CE devices with advanced technologies, such as
comprehensive media guide, high-quality playback of premium content
and streaming video delivery.
To develop DivX Plus Streaming, Rovi built upon core DivX
technologies recognized by millions of consumers around the world
for delivering great video performance, visual quality, advanced
feature set and multi-screen interoperability. The solution also
utilizes trusted digital rights management technology currently
used by a number of online retailers offering movies in the DivX
format including WB Shop and Media Markt. To accelerate time to
market and device integration, Rovi has built out the existing
certification program used for DivX technology device validation
and compatibility – a program that has resulted in shipment by
top-tier manufacturers of over 600 million DivX consumer
electronics devices into the market.
About MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
MStar Semiconductor, Inc. ("MStar") is a world-class leader in
Application Specific ICs ("ASIC") with a focus on consumer
electronic products and communication applications. Since the
inception in 2002, MStar has established a strong brand and
leadership position in LCD controller, analog and digital TV,
set-top box, and mobile communication applications by fully
leveraging its core expertise of cutting-edge design capabilities,
continuous innovation and premier customer-focused services.
Headquartered in Taiwan, MStar has a comprehensive global footprint
covering over 15 international R&D and customer support centers
to provide a full range of total solutions for various consumer
electronic applications. MStar went public in 2010 and is listed on
Taiwan Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit
www.mstarsemi.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 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,
China, 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, 2012 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: Chris Taylor
Rovi Corporation
408-562-3077
Chris.D.Taylor@rovicorp.com
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