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Macrovision offers a broad range of industry-leading solutions that enable consumer electronics manufacturers, system operators, content and information publishers, and online stores and portals to deliver the highest quality entertainment media experience to today's consumer audiences. From content management and protection to program guidance and media recognition, Macrovision has a breadth of offerings to meet the needs of today's entertainment distributors, producers, and hardware manufacturers.
Today's consumers are demanding higher-quality content than ever before—as well as more effective and efficient ways to discover, manage, access, and enjoy their digital media. Macrovision offers a number of solutions to help consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers meet the challenges faced by consumers building broad digital libraries. Using Macrovision technologies and resources, CE manufacturers can deliver the optimal digital entertainment experience by building devices that communicate with each other and enable people to easily find, access, and manage their content.
With so many options available today, cable subscribers are faced with the challenge of navigating through a vast number of programs to find and easily record their favorite shows and discover new shows to try. Macrovision interactive program guides (IPGs) enable system operators to provide customizable, feature-rich program guides to help subscribers find exactly what they want quickly and easily. Macrovision IPGs also deliver new avenues for system operators to drive sales and an enhanced experience for potential advertisers.
Online stores and portals are faced with the challenge of delivering informative and entertaining content to consumers while still driving sales and return visits. Macrovision provides an integrated suite of descriptive content, consumer websites, and metadata and media recognition technologies for the entertainment industry. By leveraging Macrovision's content resources and technologies, online stores and portals can create the most compelling entertainment media experience for their customers as well as increase business opportunities and traffic.
Content publishers today need effective and efficient ways to prevent losses due to illegal analog and digital copying while still delivering an optimal consumer entertainment experience. Macrovision is the industry leader in providing anti-piracy tools and services that enable a seamless, high-quality consumer experience—and protect both packaged media and media distributed over a network from unauthorized copying.
Macrovision provides information publishers, media, entertainment, and software companies with access control, ecommerce, business intelligence, and customer care—all of the components necessary to the infrastructure of any successful digital business. Macrovision's Online Publishing products enable the sale and security of digital goods and services and allow sales and marketing professionals to test products, promotions, and business models in real-time.
 
 
Introducing Acresso Software
On April 1, private equity firm Thoma Bravo acquired Macrovision's Software Business Unit to form Acresso Software. Acresso provides solutions for software producers and enterprises, including the well-known InstallShield and FLEXnet product lines.
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Maxtor Corporation
"The Maxtor Shared Storage Plus product line leverages [Macrovision]'s media server technology, which gives us a way to extend our offering and create a truly unique product with a competitive edge."

Mike Williams
General Manager, Branded Products Group
Maxtor Corporation

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