Rovi Corporation introduced its advanced Fan TV platform ushering the entertainment discovery. The platform integrates the Fan TV with Rovi's renowned Personalized Discovery Solution, consisting of entertainment metadata, contextual search and recommendations and natural language conversation services. With the fully integrated platform, Rovi's Fan TV powers entertainment discovery and content consumption across any screen via set-top box, connected TV, mobile, tablet and web.

Available as an end-to-end software solution or as modular API components, the platform delivers a simple and powerful navigation and personalized entertainment experience across multiple screens and services 'all designed to strengthen and differentiate existing providers' offerings. Service providers, content owners, developers and channel partners are able to select key features and functionality for integration into their product offerings via Fan TV's turnkey APIs and SDKs. Global operators can deploy Fan TV solutions through a variety of go-to-market models: APIs: The Fan TV platform is fully modular for service providers looking to complement and enhance existing software solutions, as well as hardware and middleware channel partners wanting to enrich and differentiate their offerings.

It includes advanced discovery services like contextually aware and semantically intelligent personalized search and recommendations, content and device management features, and rich entertainment metadata. It also offers deep subscriber analytics, a natural language conversational interface, as well as 360 discovery across linear TV, video-on-demand, DVR and over-the-top services. Apps (TV & Mobile): Fan TV has a cross-screen suite of apps that work together as one cohesive entertainment system.

Fully customizable iOS and Android mobile apps will keep subscribers connected to the entertainment they love on-the-go. In addition, providers can deploy Fan TV as a TV app on various streaming devices, including a recently launched Android TV app, with others coming soon. The Fan TV apps are ideal for providers looking to quickly execute a 'skinny bundle' offering.

OS: Fan TV powers hybrid or Internet Protocol (IP) set-top-boxes with live TV as the centerpiece and a cutting-edge interface, providing 360 discovery across live, video-on-demand, DVR and over-the-top services. Fan TV utilizes Rovi's rich, dynamic entertainment metadata and personalized search, recommendations, and conversation services fueled by Rovi's Knowledge Graph. Key components of the Fan TV platform such as search, recommendation and conversation services are already being utilized by service providers, including Dish and Cablevision.

In addition, Rovi is working with several channel partners to develop and sell next-generation guides powered by the Fan TV platform.