Macrovision-Gemstar: What’s In TVGuide’s Future
The Macrovision-Gemstar-TV Guide deal makes conceptual sense on the technology and services side, but what about the media business? What about the magazine, the TV channel, and the websites? It doesn’t really seem central to the combined company’s vision, whoever they want to spin it. During the conference call explaining the $2.8 billion deal, the company said officially there
Rafat – surely, someone had to mention online video discovery (beyond just traditional TV content)? Strategically, they must address this hole or they would be ignoring a huge (highly valuable) segment of consumers. Any insight here?
Macrovision has completely changed the landscape for the entertainment metadata industry. The recently announced acquisition of AMG (All Media Guide) in addition to Gemstar, will obsolete competing metadata solutions. I wonder how it will be possible for companies such as Gracenote or Muze can possibly compete with the Macrovision juggernaut?
Macrovision has completely changed the landscape for the entertainment metadata industry. The recently announced acquisition of AMG (All Media Guide) in addition to Gemstar, will obsolete competing metadata solutions. I wonder how it will be possible for companies such as Gracenote or Muze to compete with the Macrovision juggernaut?
TV Guide is a ticking time bomb. The magizine has lost readership, the TV Guide channel has little to none viewers and Macrovision bought a lemon of used beat up car in TV Guide. A pure waste of money on both sides