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UltraViolet CES Coverage Report January 10, 2012 Prepared for: Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) 521 Fifth Avenue • 8th Floor • New York, NY 10175 • Tel: 212-986-6667 • Fax: 212-986-8302 • www.braincomm.com UltraViolet CES Announcement Coverage Report Announcement Date: January 10, 2011 Coverage to Date: January 6, 2012 . Home Media Magazine, “Rovi Adds Streaming, UltraViolet to Storefront” . Communications Technology, “Rovi Stocks Expanded Entertainment Store” . Advanced Television, “Rovi enhances OTT solution” . RapidTVNews, “Rovi opens storefront to OTT entertainment” . The Verge, “Neustar Catalyst lets any retailer sell UltraViolet digital movies” January 8, 2012 . GigaOM, “Akamai seeks to bring UltraViolet to every device” . Streaming Media, “Akamai Announces UltraViolet Solution at CES” January 9, 2012 . Associated Press, “Hollywood's UltraViolet to make its way to TVs” . USA Today, “Blu-ray grows, but DVD slide nips home video sales” . Los Angeles Times, “CES 2012: Rovi lets movie fans convert DVDs to digital files for a fee” . Variety, “UltraViolet: The story so far” . Variety, “Warner Bros. Flixter pacts with Viera smart TVs” . Variety, “Rovi service links with cloud” . PC Magazine, “Put Your DVDs in the Cloud with 'Digital Copy'” . CNET, “Netflix bows out of studios' UltraViolet group” . Mashable, “Flixster Lets You View Your Movie Collection On Select Panasonic Devices” . Broadcasting & Cable, “UltraViolet Blooms” . Multichannel News, “CES: NBC To Deliver 2012 Olympics In 3D With Panasonic” . Home Media Magazine, “Rovi Bows ‘Cloud’ Access to DVD and Blu-ray Disc Movies” . Home Media Magazine, “Panasonic and Timberlake Promote Connected TV at CES” . Deadline.com, “Panasonic Will Add Flixster App To Web Connected TVs And Blu-ray Players: . Advanced Television, “UltraViolet digital copy solution from Rovi” . Advanced Television, “Akamai includes UltraViolet solutions” . Video Nuze, “Akamai Rolls Out UltraViolet, Security, Delivery Upgrades for Streaming Video” . Telecompaper, “Akamai advances platform for e-entertainment industry” January 10, 2012 . Associated Press, “Amazon gets on board with Hollywood-created UltraViolet system for online movie 'lockers'” . Reuters, “Familiar script: Home entertainment spending slips” . Financial Times, “Hollywood pins its hopes on UltraViolet” . Los Angeles Times, “Studios tout UltraViolet as home entertainment revenue falls 2%” . Forbes, “CES 2012: Blu-ray Discs Break $2 Billion Barrier for First Time in 2011” . Variety, “UltraViolet preps for mass appeal” . Variety, “Blu-ray up 20 percent in 2011: Homevid format tops $2 billion for first time since '06 launch” 2 . Variety, “Tech gear revs engines at CES” . The Hollywood Reporter, “DECE: UltraViolet Registration Surges In First Three Months” . The Philadelphia Daily News, “BEST IN SHOW; International CES expands beyond electronics” . CNET, “Amazon casts flattering light on UltraViolet . CNET, “Samsung helps UltraViolet boost hardware profile” . GigaOM, “Amazon, Samsung throw UltraViolet a lifeline” . The Wrap, “UltraViolet Backers Get Ready to Make More Noise in 2012” . PC Magazine, “UltraViolet Digital Movie Locker Expands with Amazon, Samsung” . PC Magazine, “Speech Recognition Coming to Panasonic TVs” . Twice, “Panasonic Goes For 3D Olympic Gold” . Broadcasting & Cable, “CES: Amazon to Offer UltraViolet Rights” . Home Media Magazine, “UltraViolet Garners Support from Samsung and Amazon” . Home Media Magazine, “DEG: Blu-ray, Digital Helped Lift 2011” . Engadget, “Samsung outs compact BD-ES6000 Blu-ray player, less compact ES6500, get down with UltraViolet” . Engadget, “Flixster comes to Viera Connect, gives Panasonic fans more movie access” . Gizmodo, “Hollywood’s Digital Movie Locker Finds a Home in Amazon and Samsung’s Hallways” . The Verge, “Amazon is UltraViolet's first retail partner; Samsung offering disc-to-digital on 2012 Blu-Ray players” . The Verge, “Samsung announces Blu-Ray players with Wi-Fiand Ultraviolet disc to digital support” . Deadline.com, “Samsung And Amazon Boost UltraViolet Movie Streaming Initiative” . paidContent, “Ultraviolet Movement Picks Up New Backer: Samsung” . Advanced Television, “Flixster brings UltraViolet to Panasonic” . Device Magazine, “Akamai UltraViolet Integration on Devices Coming Up” . Cynopsis Digital, “~ MULTIPLATFORM CONTENT NEWS ~” . ITGawker, “Amazon, Samsung Throw UltraViolet A lifeline” January 11, 2012 . Bloomberg, “Amazon Is First Big Retailer to Back Hollywood Film Format” . Bloomberg, “Warner Bros. Plan for DVD Rental-Delay Rejected by Blockbuster” . Variety, “Studios' digital dreams face marketplace realities” . Variety, “Turf war puts bucks in flux” . Los Angeles Times, “Hollywood stumbles on next big step in home video” . Advanced Television, “750,000+ households for UltraViolet” . Streaming Media, “CES 2012: Amazon Joins DECE, Backs UltraViolet” . FierceOnlineVideo, “In a hit for Hollywood, Amazon buys into UltraVioilet” . TechRadar, “Amazon signs on for a bit of the old UltraViolet” . Telecompaper, “UltraViolet signs up 750,000 users, expands to UK” . CSI Magazine, “UltraViolet signs 750,000 homes” Interviews conducted include: . Broadcasting & Cable: George Winslow (coverage secured) . Variety: Robyn Weisman (coverage secured) . Variety: Deborah Kaufman (coverage secured) . Los Angeles Times: Ben Fritz and Dawn Chmielewski (coverage secured) . Fortune: Robert Levine . The Wrap: Brent Lang (coverage secured) . PC World: Melissa Perenson . Matthew Garrahan: Financial Times (coverage secured) . The Hollywood Reporter: Carolyn Giardina (coverage secured) . Reuters: Lisa Richwiene (coverage secured) 3 Rovi Adds Streaming, UltraViolet to Storefront By Erik Gruenwedel Home Media Magazine January 6, 2012 Rovi Corp. has made updates to features to the Rovi Entertainment Store aimed at supporting over-the-top services delivering video content through the Internet. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Rovi said the upgrades include adding DivX Plus Streaming technology and streamlining access to UltraViolet-compatible devices and user interfaces. The upgrades are designed to provide support for platforms such as connected TVs, Web stores, Blu-ray Disc Players, iOS devices, Android mobile devices and game consoles (PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360). Through its entertainment store, Rovi is enabling UltraViolet Digital Library support within existing and future customers’ storefronts, therefore allowing consumers to buy UltraViolet-enabled content and/or access their entertainment purchases from a broad range of devices. The company will showcase the entertainment store at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Rovi also expanded its European content licensing efforts for a planned launch of its entertainment store in the United Kingdom later this year. “We believe the latest capabilities will help our customers rapidly deploy compelling and differentiated over-the- top services across tens of millions of connected devices from leading manufacturers, drive new revenue streams, and deliver a rich slate of features that allow consumers to fully immerse themselves in a highly personalized premium entertainment experience,” said Corey Ferengul, EVP of products, in a statement. ______________________ Rovi Stocks Expanded Entertainment Store Communications Technology January 6, 2012 Rovi Corporation continues to add to its white-label Rovi Entertainment Store by offering software development kits (SDKs) to streamline customer storefront launches, and DivX Plus Streaming to help enhance the consumer viewing experience and to support companies that want to introduce UltraViolet-compatible services. Later this year, Rovi will expand its content-licensing program and Rovi Entertainment Store customer support services in the U.K. Rovi says its Entertainment Store SDKs provide “support for the latest popular device platforms such as connected TVs, Web stores, Blu-ray Disc Players, iOS devices, Android mobile devices and game consoles - including the recently added support for Sony PlayStation and Xbox. Each SDK will also include reference implementations that can be quickly branded and deployed by storefront customers.” 4 It continues, “SDKs will also include extensive development documentation and libraries that enable customers to use the same underlying core that has been certified by content owners and CE manufacturers while still delivering a customized storefront experience.” Unveiled earlier this year, Rovi says DivX Plus Streaming dynamically adjusts streams to deliver maximum visual quality based on available bandwidth; and offers an advanced feature set with support for 1080p, subtitles, multiple language tracks and such “trick-play” functions as smooth fast forward and rewind. Finally, Rovi is enabling UltraViolet Digital Library support within existing and future customers' storefronts, allowing consumers to buy UltraViolet-enabled content and/or access their entertainment purchases from a broad range of devices. "For companies including retailers, content owners, CE manufacturers and service providers, Rovi Entertainment Store provides a turnkey way to quickly establish a role in the fundamental shift taking place in entertainment distribution and consumption," comments Corey Ferengul, executive vice president/Products at Rovi. "We believe the latest capabilities will help our customers rapidly deploy compelling and differentiated over-the-top services across tens of millions of connected devices from leading manufacturers, drive new revenue streams, and deliver a