Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq:ROVI) and TiVo have signed a multi-year global agreement that will allow TiVo to incorporate Rovi's television, movies, and music data into TiVo digital video recorders (DVRs) and through TiVo's technology and service solutions tailored for satellite, cable, and broadcasting companies.

Rovi provides descriptive, image-rich entertainment metadata that includes insightful program and movie descriptions, rich media content, celebrity biographies, synopses, original editorial content, cast and credits information, album reviews and artist photos as well as extensive relational links to help consumers find even more content of interest to them. TiVo now has access to Rovi's data including a vast and unique catalog of entertainment metadata on more than one million TV series episodes since 1954; more than 400,000 movie titles; and more than 1.5 million pop and classical music albums and 13 million tracks.