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Macrovision’s GUIDE Plus+ Electronic Program Guide Featuring HÖRZU Launches in the German Market

Hamburg and Santa Clara, Calif., August 29, 2008 - Macrovision® Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN) and Axel Springer announced today the availability of the HÖRZU-branded version of Macrovision’s GUIDE Plus+® Electronic Program Guide (EPG) in Germany. With today’s launch, HÖRZU listings content\ and reviews will be delivered directly to viewers’ TV screens from the GUIDE Plus+ EPG.

Macrovision’s GUIDE Plus+ system is designed for the new generation of digital products such as digital TVs, DVD-recorders and personal video recorders (PVRs). It is an eight-day EPG built directly into consumer electronics products, allowing consumers to quickly and easily navigate, sort, select, and schedule television programming for viewing or recording, simply by pressing a button. The GUIDE Plus+ system is already a feature of the digital recording products of major consumer electronics manufacturers, with over a million units deployed in the German market.

HÖRZU, owned by Axel Springer, is Germany’s largest weekly listings magazine with over 60 years of experience in guiding viewers to programming available on TV and radio. For the GUIDE Plus+ system, HÖRZU’s team of editorial specialists will deliver daily recommendations of the very best programs to watch in six major categories: Movies, Sport, Children, Entertainment, News and Other.  HÖRZU’s experts will watch, evaluate and rate the available programs, giving GUIDE Plus+ users the information they need to plan their viewing time effectively.  In addition to providing GUIDE Plus+ users with insightful reviews and helpful synopses, HÖRZU will also provide movie ratings. Additionally, HÖRZU’s logo will feature permanently on the GUIDE Plus+ EPG.

"By introducing HÖRZU into the field of electronic program guides via the GUIDE Plus+ system, we have again successfully completed the transformation of a well-established brand and premier content into the digital world,” said Jochen Beckmann, director of program magazines in Axel Springer AG Publishing House. “We look forward to working with Macrovision to deliver market leading content and services to consumers in Germany.”

"We are very pleased to be working with Axel Springer to present HÖRZU’s premium quality content to GUIDE Plus+ users,” said Tom Carson, executive vice president of worldwide sales & solutions at Macrovision. “We believe the HÖRZU-branded GUIDE Plus+ EPG will provide users with an exciting combination of compelling content and an easy-to-use platform.”

About HÖRZU
HÖRZU is the largest weekly TV program guide in Germany..HÖRZU began in 1946 as the first German program magazine with a circulation of 250,000. Already 8.9 billion copies have lain in front of German televisions ever since. HÖRZU created the genre of the TV program guide and is still significantly shaping it today. The currently published data from the working group Media-Analyse (ma 2007 II) confirms HÖRZU’s role as the leading title on the market for TV program guides with presently 4.32 million readers.

About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision is focused on providing a brilliantly simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision’s technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision’s solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, acquiring, managing and enjoying digital content.  Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, metadata on music, games, movies and television programming, media recognition, interactive programming guides, and copy protection. The company also operates entertainment portals including http://www.tvguide.com/ and http://www.allmusic.com/. Macrovision holds over 3,500 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.

©Macrovision 2008. Macrovision is a registered trademark of Macrovision Solutions Corporation. All other brands and product names and trademarks are the registered property of their respective companies.

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For more information:
Daniel Gamble
Text 100 for Macrovision
+44 20 8846 0761
Daniel.gamble@text100.co.uk


Christian Garrels
Axel Springer
+49 (0) 30 25 91-7 76 51
christian.garrels@axelspringer.de