Triveni to Build Distribution Network for Gemstar-TV IPG

Gemstar-TV has tapped Triveni Digital to build a distribution network for TV Guide On Screen--an IPG built into electronics products. GuideBuilder is the metadata management system that Triveni Digital built to accept the TV Guide on Screen information from Gemstar-TV network center. Data from the network center is in

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Nov 25, 2004

Gemstar-TV has tapped Triveni Digital to build a distribution network for TV Guide On Screen--an IPG built into electronics products.

GuideBuilder is the metadata management system that Triveni Digital built to accept the TV Guide on Screen information from Gemstar-TV network center. Data from the network center is inserted into DTV streams at ATSC broadcast stations in North America.

GuideBuilder will support ATSC stations--through its PSIP generator--in distributing program information by enhancing the system to support listings from TV Guide Data Solutions--a data collection and distribution business.

To use TV On Screen, users plug in the television or recording device and activate the guide through a set-up process. Users do not need a subscription or phone connection. The program listings are continually updated.

Companies that have a license to the Gemstar-TV IPG include JVC, Sony and Thomson.

Triveni Digital's GuideBuilder system will insert TV Guide On Screen IPG Data into DTV streams

Gemstar-TV Guide International and LG Electronics signed a multi-year agreement, under which LG licensed the right to incorporate TV Guide On Screen, Gemstar-TV Guide's interactive program guide (IPG) for consumer electronics, into digital television equipment. TV Guide On Screen features interactive on-screen program

Gemstar-TV Guide International, a leading media, entertainment and technology company, announced a long-term IPG data distribution and advertising agreement with CBS Corporation, which will allow for the distribution of the TV Guide On Screen interactive program guide data over both CBS owned and operated stations and

Gemstar-TV Guide and Sony have signed a multi-year licensing agreement allowing Sony to incorporate Gemstar's interactive program guide (IPG) into certain Sony digital products in Japan. Under the agreement, the licensed products include digital recording devices and televisions. Gemstar's consumer IPG is marketed as

Regulatory and Standards

Sony and Panasonic have signed multiyear licensing agreements with Gemstar-TV Guide to incorporate interactive program guides (IPG) into electronic devices. Under these agreements Gemstar licenses consumer electronics IPG and technology to Sony in the United States and Japan, and to Panasonic in North America, Japan an

Gemstar-TV Guide struck a multi-year agreement with Matsushita to incorporate Gemstar's latest interactive program guide (IPG) into Panasonic consumer TV sets in North America. The two companies have had a similar arrangement for consumers sets sold in Japan since 2001.Matsushita will pay license fees to Gemstar based

Gemstar-TV Guide and Digeo, two companies that have seen better days, can at least now spend less on lawyers.

Under the agreement, Gemstar-TV Guide will receive fees from DirecTV rather than continuing to receive fees from its set-top box suppliers.