Rovi Corporation : Rovi Cloud Services Power Leading Entertainment Apps Across Platforms and Around the World

FlexibleEasy to Implement Web Services Enable Developer InnovationReduce Time-to-Market for Customers

LAS VEGAS, (CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW 2012) - 1/11/2012 - Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today announced multiple customers that are successfully using Rovi Cloud Services to power a wide array of digital entertainment applicationsdevices. Rovi Cloud Services is a suite of entertainment-focused web services designed to enable the rapid development of innovative new productsapplications for the connected consumer. These services, which include real-time access to Rovi data, search,recommendations, enable customers to more easily differentiate their offerings with sophisticated capabilities that enhance the connected entertainment experience.

During the Consumer Electronics Show, Rovi is hosting a "Developer Zone" that demonstrates a number of solutions supported by Rovi Cloud Services including applications from Motorola Mobility, Roomie Remote, Logitech, Simple.TV,others. Rovi also will be demonstrating a full complement of newin-market Rovi solutions, including many Rovi-developed applications powered by Rovi Cloud Services, which are helping fuel the industry's transition to digital entertainment. Meetings are by appointment only, January 10-13, at Caesars Palace.

"We make the Discovr series of apps, which are Number 1 apps across the globe. When we started building Discovr Movies we searched for the best possible movie data,we found that Rovi had very high quality datarecommendations with excellent coverage, all wrapped up in a solid API with strong technical reliabilitysupport," said David McKinney, CEOfounder, Filter Squad. "Working with Rovi allows us to build incredible experiences for our usersto release our apps to millions of users with confidence. We're very excited to be working with such a great partnerwe can't wait to keep building more applications on top of Rovi services."

Rovi data is at the core of these entertainment experiences, helping consumers connect with the content that matters most to them in an intuitive, visually rich way. With Rovi's flexible APIs, international reach,its massive catalog of multimedia content, companies from a broad range of sizesindustries-from consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers to online, mobile,application developers of all sizes-are using Rovi Cloud Services to achieve benefits such as expanded content discovery capabilities, enhanced customer servicefaster time to market.

Rovi Cloud Services include APIs for real-time access to metadata, recommendations,search, among others. Many of these APIs are openly made available for evaluation on the Rovi Cloud Services Developer Portal (). Rovi has seen rapid adoption of its APIs since launching the Developer Portal at CES 2011, including conversion of many developer accounts to commercial licenses. When asked why they choose to use Rovi Cloud Services in their productsservices, customers' reasons range from Rovi's ability to accelerate their time to market while reducing costcomplexity, to Rovi's unique combination of cloud-based servicesextensive, international data on media content.

"Rovi Cloud Services offer a variety of powerful functionality that lets developers rapidly build creativeengaging entertainment applications,they are using Rovi content in diversefrequently ingenious ways," said Corey Ferengul, executive vice president of products, Rovi. "One reason we have launched Rovi Cloud Servicesprovided real-time access to our extensive, professionally-curated data catalogsrobust searchrecommendations solutions is to support our customers' businesses, so they can quickly bring to market their innovative new applications. By providing flexible, robust, standards-based web services interfaces on top of our rich metadata, we believe Rovi makes it easier for developers to create applications that work across a wide variety of internet-connected platformsdevices."

Rovi has one of the world's largest collections of entertainment metadata, much of which it makes available through its public APIs, including:

• More than 3.8 million TV programs
• 500,000+ movie/video titles
• Over 3 million album releases29.8 million music tracks

Solutions Demonstrated @ CES
The productsapplications being demonstrated in the Rovi Developer Zone at CES include:

• (Filter Squad) - Discovr Movies is the popular new movie discovery application for MaciOS from Filter Squad - developer of Discovr MusicDiscovr Apps, both Number 1 applications across the globe with more than 1.5 million downloads to date. Discovr Movies  uses Rovi DataRecommendations Services to provide rich informationrelevant recommendations to users.
• (CTAM) - Through "List It!", a new Facebook application launched in support of Movies On Demand® (MOD) On Cable,  movie fans can answer questions, rank,share their Top 5 movie lists in many different categories. "List It!" uses Rovi Cloud Servicesis a complement to the yearlong 2011 MOD marketing campaign supported by the top U.S. cable companies10 major movie studios,led by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Marketing Co-op.
• - Logitech has teamed with Rovi to provide program information behind its free Harmony Link App for the Logitech Harmony Link. Working together, Harmony Linkthe Harmony Link App turn a user's iPad into the smartest remote in the house. A user can select a show from the personalized, in-app TV listings on their iPadtune in with one touch. Rovi Data Service includes show synopsesimages to give the user an in-depth experience as they navigate through their entertainment content.
• by Motorola - These Android-powered smartphones have Motorola's unique, built-in connected music player that features an easy-to-use discovery dashboard for instant access to a user's favorite artists, as well as personalized song, music video,playlist recommendations based on what is in their media librarywhich tracks they play.
• - Murfie.com is an online music store listing albums for sale or trade. It uses Rovi DataSearch Services to provide its customers with information about the albums available for sale or trade on Murfie.
• - The Niveus Connected Platform is a turnkey solution to OEMs looking to enable their PCtablet devices with linearon-demand broadcast TV. Niveus is demonstrating an integration with Rovi Cloud Services that provides rich EPG dataenhanced metadata across its various DVR & Second Screen Experiences.
• (Cyphersoft) - Roomie Remote controls home theater components from the iPad, iPhone,iPod Touch. Roomie is a universal remote supporting thousands of devices, many via direct communication over the user's home network rather than requiring additional hardware. Roomie uses Rovi Cloud Services to personalize TV listings matched to a user's setup,provides live feedback for many devices to display other information, like the receiver's volume.
• - Using Rovi Cloud Services for its electronic program guiderich metadata, Simple.TV's connected DVR enables consumers to watch, pauserecord their favorite network television from their iPad, Roku box, Google TV, or Smart TV - anywhere.
• - TapCast is a social media platform that makes television more socialinteractive via a second screen (tablet or smartphone). The "secret sauce" in its technology uses Rovi Cloud Services to provide TV viewers with an advanced socialinteractive TV listings guide based on their "Likes"personal interests.
• ) - Using Audible Magic's patented digital-fingerprint automated content recognition technology, its new Live TViD™ service quickly identifies a live television program a viewer is watchingthen allows application developers to create synchronized media experiences.

"Roomie Remote brings next-generation home theater control to the masses without expensive custom tabletsprogramming normally associated with this space. Rovi Cloud Services provide the perfect complement, allowing Roomie to blend guide information together with control of the customer's theater components, closing the loop on the full user experience," said Will Price, CEOfounder, Cyphersoft.

About Rovi Cloud Services
The suite of Rovi Cloud Services includes:

• Rovi Data Service - Provides real-timeup-to-date access to a massive amount of entertainment metadata from Rovi, including information about movies, television, music, celebrities,other information that can enhancemake entertainment applications more usefulengaging for the consumer
• Rovi Recommendations Service - Offers various recommendation types, such as item-based, filtered, popular, new content, personalized, editorial, communityothers, helping to drive salesconsumption of entertainment content
• Rovi Search Service - Combines powerful algorithms, rich metadata,a user-centric design approach to provide more accuraterelevant search capability with filtered, predictivepersonalized results
• Rovi Management Services - Reserved for Rovi applicationsselect third-parties, a set of user profile, deviceevent management APIs,reportinganalytics capabilities, which can be paired with the other web services to support user personalizationa seamless consumer experience, regardless of platform or device
• Rovi Media Recognition Service - Enables companies to enhance their entertainment offerings by recognizingtagging physicaldigital media files with rich entertainment metadata
• Rovi Advertising Service - Allows companies to monetize their connected devicescreate recurring revenue streams by serving advertising on living room displays

Developers can register an accountapply for an API key to evaluate Rovi Cloud Services today at .

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 sourceslocations. The company also provides extensive entertainment discovery solutions for television, movies, musicphotos to its customers in the consumer electronics, cablesatellite, entertainmentonline distribution markets. These solutions, complemented by industry leading entertainment data, create the connections between peopletechnology,enable them to discovermanage entertainment in an enjoyable form.

Rovi holds approximately 5,100 issued or pending patents worldwideis headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United Statesaround the world including Japan, China, Luxembourg,the United Kingdom. More information about Rovi can be found at .

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