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Today's consumers are inundated with an expanding number of choices in content, channels, and viewing platforms - making it more and more difficult to find out "what's on" and where to go to watch it. Rovi's digital home entertainment media guides provide CE manufacturers and mobile carriers with interactive, on-screen listings to help viewers navigate, sort, select, and schedule television programming - providing consumers with an optimal viewing experience.
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With Rovi's TotalGuide™, CE manufacturers can increase customer satisfaction by offering simple and intuitive access to multiple content types: broadcast, premium, Internet-based and personal. In addition, TotalGuide enhances the consumer experience through rich TV guide database and extended multimedia. With the latest in search and recommendations technologies, Rovi's TotalGuide guides consumers to find TV favorites and discover new content in a number of ways.
(For North America)
Rovi's TV Guide On Screen® helps CE manufacturers simplify and personalize the home entertainment experience for consumers. With this TV show guide, consumers gain access to tailored listings and entertainment content, as well as to Rovi's descriptive, engaging entertainment metadata.
(For Europe)
Rovi's GUIDE Plus+® programming guide allows CE manufacturers to integrate interactive programming guide functionality directly into TVs, DVD recorders, personal video recorders, and other devices. GUIDE Plus+ programming guide is available in more than 80 percent of the European market. This GUIDE Plus system will be incorporated into digital devices in anticipation of Europe's switch to an all-digital broadcast environment.
(For Asia)
Rovi's G-GUIDE® is the standard for electronic program guides (EPGs) in Japan. The G-GUIDE electronic program guide covers all terrestrial and satellite data broadcasting in Japan - achieving 100 percent of the TV audience household coverage rate. The G-GUIDE electronic programming guide is used in more than 20 million consumer electronics devices and personal computers in Japan.
Rovi's VCR Plus+® provides TV viewers with a quick and easy way to record their favorite television programs. Consumers can instantly record television programs by entering a special PlusCode® number into their VCR or DVD recorders. PlusCode numbers are industry standard numbers that correspond to individual television programs.
Rovi's G-Code® is a recording system that allows users to instantly record television shows by entering a special G-Code number into their HDD, VHS, or DVD recorders. G-Code numbers are industry standard numbers that correspond to individually-listed television shows. TV viewers simply input a G-Code number into their recorder, and the desired television show will automatically be recorded. The G-Code recording system provides TV viewers across Asia with a quick and easy way to record their favorite television shows.
For Europe (VIDEO Plus+ in the UK and Ireland)
Rovi's ShowView® System is a simple, user-friendly recording technology that makes recording your favourite TV programs an easy, one-step process. Viewers simply input a string of numbers - the ShowView Programming Number - via the remote control, into a VCR or DVD recorder equipped with the ShowView technology, and the desired TV program will automatically be recorded.