Fan TV Evolves into a Modular Platform that Service Providers,
Developers and Channel Partners can Deploy as an End-To-End Solution or
Integrate as Stand-Alone Features for Entertainment Discovery
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
CES — Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today introduced its
advanced Fan
TV platform ushering in the next-generation of entertainment
discovery. The platform integrates the award-winning Fan TV with Rovi’s
renowned Personalized
Discovery Solution, consisting of entertainment metadata, contextual
search and recommendations and natural language conversation services.
With the fully integrated platform, Rovi’s Fan TV is one of the
industry’s most advanced offerings that powers entertainment discovery
and content consumption across any screen via set-top box, connected TV,
mobile, tablet and web.
Rovi’s Fan TV platform is one of the most flexible platforms on the
market today. Available as an end-to-end software solution or as modular
API components, the platform delivers a simple and powerful navigation
and personalized entertainment experience across multiple screens and
services—all designed to strengthen and differentiate existing
providers’ offerings.
“The power of Rovi’s Fan TV platform is that it enables global service
providers, developers and our channel partners to tap into our
market-leading technologies either as a full-service solution or for a
specific feature to improve their own products,” said Gilles BianRosa,
vice president and general manager Fan TV, Rovi. “The need for powerful
and simple discovery has grown dramatically as entertainment options
have multiplied to include hundreds of channels along with a sea of apps
and On Demand catalogs. The strength of the Fan TV platform lies not
only in each component being best-of-breed, but also in the flexibility
that enables customers to customize and implement the platform in a
variety of different ways.”
Service providers, content owners, developers and channel partners are
able to select key features and functionality for integration into their
product offerings via Fan TV’s turnkey APIs and SDKs. Global operators
can deploy Fan TV solutions through a variety of go-to-market models:
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APIs: The Fan TV platform is fully modular for service
providers looking to complement and enhance existing software
solutions, as well as hardware and middleware channel partners wanting
to enrich and differentiate their offerings. It includes advanced
discovery services like contextually aware and semantically
intelligent personalized search and recommendations, content and
device management features, and rich entertainment metadata. It also
offers deep subscriber analytics, a natural language conversational
interface, as well as 360 discovery across linear TV, video-on-demand,
DVR and over-the-top services.
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Apps (TV & Mobile): Fan TV has a cross-screen suite of apps
that work together as one cohesive entertainment system. Fully
customizable iOS and Android mobile apps will keep subscribers
connected to the entertainment they love on-the-go. In addition,
providers can deploy Fan TV as a TV app on various streaming devices,
including a recently launched Android TV app, with others coming soon.
The Fan TV apps are ideal for providers looking to quickly execute a
“skinny bundle” offering.
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OS: Fan TV powers hybrid or Internet Protocol (IP)
set-top-boxes with live TV as the centerpiece and a cutting-edge
interface, providing 360 discovery across live, video-on-demand, DVR
and over-the-top services. Fan TV utilizes Rovi’s rich, dynamic
entertainment metadata and market-leading personalized search,
recommendations, and conversation services fueled by Rovi’s Knowledge
Graph.
Key components of the Fan TV platform – such as search, recommendation
and conversation services – are already being utilized by market leading
service providers, including Dish and Cablevision. In addition, Rovi is
working with several channel partners to develop and sell
next-generation guides powered by the Fan TV platform.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) is creating personalized and data-driven
ways for viewers to discover the right entertainment and for providers
to discover the right audiences. Chosen by top brands in entertainment
content, services and devices, Rovi touches the lives of hundreds of
millions of consumers by providing comprehensive solutions, customizable
products and technology licensing to make discovery simple, seamless and
personal. Learn how Rovi is advancing entertainment and audience
discovery at rovicorp.com,
or follow us on Twitter @rovicorp.com.
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Source: Rovi Corporation