It looks like there is a lot of activity in DVD authoring facilities -- we need more DVD software! Macrovision licenses 17 more DVD authoring facilities............
Seventeen More DVD Facilities Authorized to Provide Macrovision DVD
Copy Protection
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 25, 1997-- Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ:MVSN)
announced today that seventeen more authoring and replication facilities have become authorized to provide Macrovision
DVD copy protection to their clients.
There are now a total of 36 Macrovision-authorized DVD facilities in 11 countries.
"We are pleased that the network of facilities offering Macrovision DVD copy protection continues to grow," said Mark
Belinsky, Vice President of Macrovision's Copy Protection Group. "This means content owners seeking to use Macrovision
DVD copy protection can choose from a wide range of facilities offering this technology."
Macrovision DVD copy protection, which has now been used on over 2 million DVDs, allows content owners to protect their
DVDs from unauthorized copying to VCRs. This capability is particularly important with a high quality format such as DVD,
because VHS copies of unprotected DVD material can be comparable in quality to commercially available prerecorded
videocassettes.
"Rights owners distributing their programs on DVD are frequently interested in every tool available that can help them protect
their intellectual property," said Dave Rubenstein, President of Cinram U.S. Holdings. "We feel it is our responsibility to our
clients to provide the Macrovision copy protection option to prevent content theft."
The latest authoring facilities to become Macrovision-authorized are: AVM Dialog AB (Goteborg, Sweden); Cinram POP
DVD Center (Santa Monica, CA); Digital Media Group (Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Digital Video Mastering Pty. Ltd.
(Sydney, Australia); Film- und Videotechnik B. Gurtler GmbH (Munchen, Germany); Hecker & Schneider GmbH
(Dortmund, Germany); k-kontor (Hamburg) kommunikations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany); Kao Infosystems Company
(Fremont, CA); Memory-Tech Corporation (Tokyo, Japan); One (UK) Ltd. (London, UK); Paris Media System S.A. (Paris,
France); Pioneer France SA (Nanterre, France); RiTEK Corporation (Taiwan, R.O.C.); Stimulus, Inc. (Calgary, Alberta);
and Valkieser Solutions (Hilversum, The Netherlands).
The latest replicators who have become Macrovision-authorized include Cinram, Inc. (Richmond, IN); Kao Infosystems
Company (Fremont, CA); Memory-Tech Corporation (Tokyo, Japan); Pacific Mirror Image (Melbourne, Australia); and
RiTEK Corporation (Taiwan, R.O.C.). Kao, Memory-Tech, and RiTEK provide both authoring and replication services.
To utilize copy protection, content owners instruct their authoring facility to activate copy protection 'control bits' during the
authoring process. When a disc with these control bits is played back on a DVD player, copy protection signals are generated
by a proprietary Macrovision circuit inside the DVD player and are added to the player's analog output. The copy protection
signals are transparent on original program viewing, but cause copies made on most VCRs to be substantially degraded.
Macrovision Corporation is best known for the videocassette version of its copy protection technology used by most major
Hollywood studios. In the U.S., over 1500 corporate, educational, and special interest content owners apply the
videocassette anticopy process to their programs. Since its first commercial use in 1985, over 1.8 billion videocassettes have
been encoded with Macrovision copy protection worldwide. In digital video applications Macrovision copy protection circuits
have been incorporated in all DVD players sold to date, and in over 6 million digital set-top decoders as well.
About Macrovision
Macrovision Corporation creates, designs, manufactures, licenses and markets technologies to protect the interests of content
providers in the distribution of video and audio programming. The company offers products and services for the home video,
PPV, cable, satellite, theatrical and corporate communications markets.
Macrovision has recently released in the United States of America an enhanced version of its copy protection technology for
use in the digital versatile disc (DVD) format, as well as on digital pay-per-view (PPV) movies and events.
All statements contained herein, as well as oral statements that may be made by the Company or by officers, directors or
employees of the Company acting on the Company's behalf, that are not statements of historical fact, constitute
"forward-looking statements" and are made pursuant to the Safe-Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995.
Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the actual
results of the Company to be materially different from the historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by
such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties are outlined in the Company's Registration statement on Form
SB2 and in its reports on Form 10QSB. The Company is not obligated to revise or update any forward-looking statements in
order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.
Note to Editors: Additional background information on Macrovision Corporation and its copy protection technologies is
available through our web site at www.macrovision.com .
Macrovision is a registered trademark of Macrovision Corporation. Macrovision has subsidiaries in London and Tokyo, with
headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
CONTACT: Macrovision Corporation
Mark Belinsky or Andy Pillsbury, 408/743-8600
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