Rovi Donates Rare Archive of CDs, Blu-Rays, DVDs and Video Games
Spanning Two Decades of Entertainment
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and EAST LANSING, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) and Michigan State University (MSU)
today announced that Rovi has donated a rare and valuable media
collection to MSU. This donation establishes the largest media
collection held by a library in the United States. The new “Rovi Media
Collection” is comprised of close to one million CDs, Blu-Rays, DVDs,
and video games, and is now publicly available through the MSU library
and interlibrary loan services.
“We are honored to be the proprietors of the largest media archive in
the country, which has quickly become the most requested material in the
Michigan inter-library loan system,” said Clifford H. Haka, director of
libraries, Michigan State University. “The ‘Rovi Media Collection’
dramatically enhances our teaching curriculum and research within the
College of Music, popular culture and film studies, and an emerging
gaming program. Assembling a collection of such cultural and historic
importance and overall magnitude would simply not have been feasible
with our current budget. On behalf of all of our users at MSU and across
Michigan, we thank Rovi for this generous gift.”
“Rovi’s extensive collection of entertainment media has enabled the
cataloging, metadata tagging, and editorial description of numerous
albums, artists, movies, TV shows, and video games for our customers
worldwide,” said Kathy Weidman, senior vice president and general
manager, metadata, Rovi. “Our donation to Michigan State University
marks the passing of these materials for use in an educational capacity,
while also providing accessibility to the general public. It is
extremely gratifying to establish the largest collection of
entertainment content in a U.S. library and allow future generations to
access and enjoy these wonderful media artifacts from the past two
decades.”
As a result of Rovi’s meticulous efforts to catalog and ingest metadata
about entertainment media products for its customers, the company’s
archive has grown exponentially over the past 20 plus years. As one of
the nation’s top 50 libraries with more than five million volumes held,
MSU will manage the on-going care, storage, and maintenance of the
physical collection.
The archive consists of CDs that have been commercially available in the
U.S. as well as a significant percentage of releases imported from
Europe. The DVD collection, which was started the year DVDs were
introduced to the market, similarly represents the vast majority of
commercially released DVDs in the U.S. The games archive focuses
primarily on console games and PC games, beginning in 1999, and includes
a number of titles that date back to the early 80s. The "Rovi Media
Collection" also includes a catalog of metadata elements consisting of
nearly 20 million data points. Today, Rovi continues to expand its
metadata business and is a leading resource for international metadata
with availability in more than 70 countries.
Michigan State University will host a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark
the official opening of the "Rovi Media Collection" on Monday, Oct. 19,
2015 at 2 p.m. in the West Wing of the MSU Main Library. Media are
welcome to attend the free event. A reception will follow the ceremony
and will be held in the Green Room, West Wing, Fourth Floor.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi is leading the way to a more personalized entertainment experience.
The company’s pioneering guides, data 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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