TotalGuide TV Programming Guide

Advanced entertainment discovery solution

With TotalGuide™ TV programming guide, CE manufacturers can increase customer satisfaction by offering simple, centralized and intuitive access to multiple content types: broadcast, premium, Internet-based and personal. In addition, TotalGuide enhances the consumer experience through rich TV listings, enhanced data and imagery, as well as extended multimedia. With the latest in TV programming guide search and recommendations technologies, TotalGuide helps consumers find favorite TV programs and discover new programs in a number of ways.

Create Personal Experiences
TotalGuide offers profiles, personalized content options, reminders, and other features that create unique and personal experiences for consumers.

Enhance Entertainment
Enhanced with our extensive, descriptive metadata, TotalGuide links to over 2.5 million TV program descriptions, 120,000 celebrity profiles, a searchable database on TV shows since 1960, and much more. The information is complemented by extended multimedia, including rich graphics and behind-the-scenes extras.

Fuel Discovery
TotalGuide provides multiple types of recommendations, including recommendations based on editorial reviews; personal preferences, social networking "favorites," keywords and categories.

Rovi supports digital broadcasting in North America and Europe, including terrestrial, satellite and cable networks, providing consumers access to information on their favorite television programs.

TotalGuide TV
Television content guide enabling access to linear content; includes management and customization tools

TotalGuide Broadband
Broadband content guide enabling access to Internet-based content including PPV, VOD, photos, music, and more

TotalGuide Personal
Personal content guide enabling access to personal content stored on standards-based devices within a home network

Recorder
Digital video recording application that enables program recording and scheduling on a set-top box

Entertainment Data
Deep entertainment metadata to support access to multiple content types; includes program data, rich media, video clips, logos, images, celebrity and sports information, music, and more

Search
Advanced media search capabilities that allow users to discover new content

Personalization
Personalized profiles, dashboards, and reminders that facilitate a unique user experience

Recommendations
Array of recommendations options, including editorial, filtered, personalized, and item-, group- and user-based; enables users to more easily discover new content they are most likely to enjoy

Advanced Advertising
Integration with image, video, interactive ads; microsites; lead generation; dynamic ad serving; metrics, reporting and analysis

Update Service
Hosted service that enables firmware updates

TotalGuide TV is a linear discovery solution that CE manufacturers can embed into their devices. Equipped with an optional digital video recording application and advanced advertising capabilities, TotalGuide TV provides access to digital programming throughout North America and Europe.

Available together or as separate modules, Rovi's media guides also offer update capabilities through our hosted update service to provide up-to-date content and applications to users.

TotalGuide Broadband provides centralized access to a variety of premium and other Internet-based content. It supports paid streaming media from our entertainment partners, as well as free content from popular news, music, social networking and other websites.

Available together or as separate modules, Rovi's media guides also offer update capabilities through our hosted update service to provide up-to-date content and applications to users.

TotalGuide Personal brings personal content and media stored throughout the home - from photos and videos to music and film collections - to the television. TotalGuide Personal not only helps consumers navigate their personal content collections, but it also gives them the ability to share their personal content from the ease and comfort of their television screens.

Available together or as separate modules, Rovi's media guides also offer update capabilities through our hosted update service to provide up-to-date content and applications to users.