Philips Semiconductors And Macrovision Announce Industry's First Copy Protection Detect Certification For Video Decoder Devices

Safeguard Video Programming In Set-Top Boxes And Video Time Shift Systems

19-Jun-00

Philips Semiconductors, an affiliate of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG) and Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN) announced that Philips' new SAA7118 9-bit video decoder chip is the world's first video decoder device to receive full certification in accordance with Macrovision's newly issued Copy Protection Detect Specification Revision 1.00. Macrovision's Copy Protection Detect technology, integrated into Philips' new decoder chip, ensures that source programming remains protected throughout the entire analog to digital conversion process, which prevents the permanent recording of copyrighted and copy protected content. The new integrated solution can be designed into set-top boxes, hard disk drives and DVD-Recordable-based personal TV entertainment systems, PCs and peripherals by manufacturers, and other companies wanting to ensure that their hardware is compliant with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.""Protecting source programming from illicit copying and piracy during analog to digital conversion is a key factor driving the growth of the digital video broadcast and personal video recording (PVR) markets,"" said Michael Malloy, Product Marketing Manager for Philips Semiconductors. ""Macrovision's leadership in developing copy protection technology has long been a powerful asset in our video encoding platforms and now thanks to this new certification for our decoder chip, we can offer end-to-end content protection capabilities to our customers."" ""Macrovision is pleased to have its copy protection detection feature included within Philips Semiconductors' new video decoder products,"" said Bill Krepick, President and COO of Macrovision Corporation. ""Adding copy protection detection into video input devices not only expands Macrovision's copy protection ecosystem, it also makes our technology more valuable to programmers by helping to assure that the long-term value of their content is safeguarded."" About Philips Semiconductors Philips Semiconductors, which has annual revenues of approximately $5 billion, designs and manufactures semiconductors and silicon systems platforms. Philips Semiconductors is spearheading the emerging field of systems on silicon solutions with the innovative Nexperiaô platform and VLSI Velocityô tool set. The company's Sea-of-IP design methodology allows plug and play intellectual property blocks for easily customizable products. The company is a leader in communications, consumer, PC peripherals and automotive semiconductors, which are key applications for convergence in end-user products. Philips Semiconductors is headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and has operations throughout the world. For more information, visit www.philips.semiconductors.com. About Macrovision Macrovision Corporation develops and markets content copy protection and rights management technologies to prevent the unauthorized duplication, reception or use of video and audio programs and computer software. The company provides its products and services primarily to the home video, consumer multimedia software, digital pay-per-view, cable, satellite and video security markets. Macrovision has its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California with subsidiaries in London and Tokyo. Source: Phillips Semiconductors

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