Summit Broadband Selects Rovi Passport Guide HD and Rovi Unveils
i-Guide HD
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
SCTE — Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today announced Rovi’s
first customer for Passport®
Guide HD, Summit Broadband, and introduced i-Guide HD, the company’s
newest addition to its line of interactive program guides. Summit
Broadband, a provider of phone, Internet, and cable TV services for
residential and commercial customers, has selected Rovi’s innovative
Passport Guide HD to deliver advanced entertainment discovery, powered
by Rovi’s entertainment metadata. The addition of Passport Guide HD now
provides Summit Broadband with expanded TV listings and a fresh design
for DVR, search and advanced video-on-demand (VOD) capabilities.
Continuing to bring innovation to its program guides, Rovi also unveiled
its new i-Guide HD solution, which provides a high-resolution,
wide-screen design for a full HD experience. The newly designed i-Guide
HD supports applications to help service providers extend customer
engagement, while offering the same easy-to-use navigation consumers are
familiar with. It also features new HD Auto-Tune, which ensures viewers
are watching their favorite shows in the highest possible resolution.
“Rovi’s history in delivering proven guide technologies are a natural
fit for Summit Broadband as we continue to shape the entertainment
viewing experience in the homes of our subscribers,” said Mark Lipford,
COO, Summit Broadband. “Our customers will enjoy using the advanced
features offered by Rovi’s Passport Guide HD such as its streamlined HD
interface, intuitive design, and robust discovery capabilities.”
“As more entertainment options become available to consumers, service
providers like Summit Broadband look to Rovi to help them differentiate
offerings with high-quality solutions in order to remain competitive,”
said Sarah Gaeta, vice president and general manager, guides products,
Rovi. “Rovi continues to evolve our renowned interactive program guide
to arm our customers with the advanced capabilities to deliver the best
entertainment discovery experience to millions of households.”
Rovi’s program guides reach millions of service provider households and
devices with its relationships with market-leading cable, satellite and
broadband providers, networks, consumer electronics brands, and media
and Internet-related companies worldwide. The company’s innovative,
award-winning guides help consumers navigate broadcast, time-shifted,
over-the-top (OTT), and video-on-demand (VOD) content on multiple
devices and platforms.
Rovi will showcase its comprehensive suite of discovery and monetization
solutions during SCTE 2015 in Booth #837.
About Summit Broadband
Summit Broadband, a telecommunications provider, offers phone,
high-speed Internet, cable TV and data transport services to both
commercial and residential customers throughout Southwest Florida and
Central Florida. The company also offers dark fiber transport to
enterprise and carrier customers. Summit Broadband now supplies
uncompressed high-definition television and the fastest Internet service
available with speeds of 1,000 megabits per second (1 gigabit per
second). In 2013 Summit Broadband merged with US Metro, Marco Island
Cable, and NuVu — offering businesses and consumers a nearly 500-mile
fiber-optic backbone connecting South Florida, West Florida and Central
Florida. For more information, visit http://www.summit-broadband.com.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi is leading the way to a more personalized entertainment experience.
The company’s pioneering guides, metadata and recommendations continue
to drive program search and navigation on millions of devices across the
globe. With a new generation of cloud-based discovery capabilities and
emerging solutions for interactive advertising and audience analytics,
Rovi is enabling premier brands worldwide to increase their reach, drive
consumer satisfaction and create a better entertainment experience
across multiple screens. Rovi holds over 5,000 issued or pending patents
worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Discover more
about Rovi at Rovicorp.com.
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