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Rovi's TV Guide Widget Goes Live On Samsung HDTVs' Yahoo! TV Widget Platform

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November 24, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- The Rovi Corp. (NASDAQ: ROVI) TV Guide widget, an application to help viewers find out information on TV shows and programs that are airing, has launched on Samsung HDTV's Yahoo! TV Widget Engine platform.

Rovi's TV Guide widget provides viewers a snapshot of "what's on" twenty-eight of the most popular television channels.

Now live on Samsung HDTV's Yahoo! TV Widget platform, available on select models in Samsung's 2009 flat-panel HDTV product lines, users can access TV program listings, descriptions and airing times by selecting the options "On Now" and "On Next" using the remote control. Users can also select from several "Hotlists" including the Daily Hotlist of popular prime-time shows, Movies, Family and Sports. Each day, these lists are hand-selected by Rovi's editors to comprise programming that they feel viewers might find of particular interest.

Samsung and Yahoo! debuted their Internet-based service to Samsung televisions, "Internet@TV - Content Service," powered by the Yahoo! Widget Engine, earlier this year to enable TV watchers to interact with a rich set of TV widgets of popular Internet services and online media that traditionally could only be enjoyed on a PC.

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