Digital Entertainment Technology Leader - Digital Content Management and Discovery - Rovi. Rovi Corporation. Rovi Corporation is a United States-based company that provides guidance technology, entertainment data, copy protection, industry standard networking and media management technology for digital entertainment devices and services. Its customers include consumer electronics manufacturers, cable television and satellite television operators, movie studios and online entertainment portals and content distributors. [ 1 ] Rovi was known as Macrovision Solutions Corporation ( Macrovision ) until it changed its name in July 2009. [ 2 ] [ edit ] History Rovi was established under the name Macrovision Corporation in 1983.
The 1984 film The Cotton Club was the first video to be encoded with Macrovision technology when it was released in 1985. By the end of the 1980s, most major Hollywood studios were utilizing their services. Macrovision then divested other areas of its non digital entertainment business, including TryMedia , eMeta, TV Guide Magazine , TV Guide Network and TVG - Horse Racing. Gracenote | Gracenote. Gracenote. Gracenote, Inc., formerly called CDDB (Compact Disc Data Base), is a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. It provides software and metadata to businesses that enable their customers to manage and search digital media. Gracenote provides its media management technology and global media database of digital entertainment information to the mobile, automobile, portable, home, and PC markets.
Several computer software applications that are capable of playing CDs, such as Winamp, Media Go, and iTunes, use Gracenote's CDDB technology. Introduction[edit] Gracenote maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records. Products[edit] In January 2014, Gracenote announced Rhythm, a new white label service that will allow companies to build online radio services with a recommendation engine.[6][7]
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