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Interactive Program Guide
For CE Manufacturers
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. Macrovision' interactive program guides (IPGs) 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.
Macrovision's TV Guide On Screen® is the leading interactive program guide (IPG) for the U.S. consumer electronics (CE) market. CE manufacturers can integrate TV Guide On Screen directly into products such as digital video recorders (DVRs), DVD recorders, and digital converter boxes—helping consumers find the shows that matter most to them.
(For Europe)
GUIDE Plus+® allows consumer electronic manufacturers to integrate interactive program guide functionality directly into TVs, DVD recorders, personal video recorders, and other devices. Macrovision's GUIDE Plus+ system is available in more than 80 percent of the European market—and will be incorporated into digital devices in anticipation of Europe's switch to an all-digital broadcast environment.
(For Asia)
Macrovision G-Guide® is the standard for electronic program guides (EPGs) in Japan. G-Guide covers all terrestrial and satellite data broadcasting in Japan—achieving 100 percent of the TV audience household coverage rate. G-Guide is used in more than 20 million consumer electronics devices and personal computers in Japan.
Macrovision VCR Plus® is a recording system that allows users to instantly record television shows by entering a special PlusCode® number into their VCR Plus equipment. PlusCode numbers are industry standard numbers that correspond to individually listed television programs. TV viewers simply input a PlusCode number into their VCR or DVD recorder, and the desired show will automatically be recorded. VCR Plus provides viewers with a quick and easy way to record their favorite television shows.
Macrovision My TV Guide provides a suite of tools and services that enable distributors to create content-rich, integrated program guide experiences for consumers. The My TV Guide solution helps consumers navigate to the TV programming they want across multiple platforms—from the TV to the Internet to mobile devices.