SANTA CLARA, Calif.— 1/5/2005 - Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN), the global market leader in content protection and digital rights management (DRM) technologies, has evolved its market-leading, patented SafeDisc® software protection technology, in use on hundreds of millions of PCs, for use in CDS™, the world’s most widely adopted music CD content protection solution. Music labels can, for the first time, deploy a software-based content protection solution with confidence to hundreds of millions of consumers in the U.S. and beyond.
The increasing threats posed by Peer-to-Peer downloading and other forms of digital piracy require complex software solutions and services. Today’s announcement signals a confirmation by Macrovision that it has translated years of experience designing market-leading software solutions for the world’s top Software and Games Publishers into cutting-edge digital software solutions for the music entertainment industry.
"It was natural to build on a proven technology in use on over 300 million PCs to deliver the only product Music Labels can deploy having such an extensive history of performance and compatibility on consumer PCs worldwide," said Steve Weinstein, executive vice president and general manager of Macrovision’s Entertainment Technologies Group. "Macrovision is a Microsoft Certified Partner, with a tested worldwide support network already familiar with providing excellent service for desktop deployments. When it comes to software on a consumer’s PC, our customers understand the value of stability, compatibility and support."
CDS is among the first CD Content Protection products in the market to be certified by Microsoft Corporation as a "Designed for Microsoft® Windows® XP" solution. For more information, refer to the
Microsoft Windows Catalog.
Macrovision continues to demonstrate its deep working relationship with Microsoft through its ongoing participation in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Industry Partner Program, the Microsoft Management Alliance, the Windows Embedded Program, and Windows Mobile Solutions Partner Program.
About CDS
CDS has shipped on over 400 million music CDs worldwide, protecting over 4 billion music tracks. Over 22 major and independent music labels worldwide and 20 resellers have utilized the CDS technology on over 4,000 albums since 2002. The SafeDisc technology has shipped on over 300 million CD/DVD-ROMs, protecting over 3,300 PC game titles and over 3,500 software titles.
The latest version of CDS-300 is pro-consumer and pro-content owner. It features the best CD rip protection on the market while giving consumers one click capability for music portability (DRM copies) and backup flexibility (Controlled Burn CD copies). CDS-300 is transparent across CD, DVD and PC audio systems, and provides the same high standards for CD audio quality adopted by worldwide manufacturers and preserves 100% of the audio fidelity (16-bit/44.1 kHz).
CDS-300 is compatible with Microsoft’s Windows Media® DRM solutions and is designed to support other third-party DRM vendors. For more information about CDS-300 features and benefits, visit
www.macrovision.com/products/cds/cds300. For a list of compatible portable devices, visit
www.microsoft.com/cooldevices.
About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on providing a uniquely simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, media recognition, interactive programming guides, copy protection and rich media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can be found at http://www.allmusic.com/. Macrovision holds over 4,100 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.
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