Gemstar-TV Guide and Digeo Enter Into Patent License Agreement

  
    
  
  
    
      Gemstar-TV Guide (NASDAQ: GMST), a leading media, entertainment and 
      technology company, and Digeo, Inc., maker of the Moxi® 
      DVR, which includes the Emmy®-award winning 
      Moxi Menu, today announced that they have entered into a multi-year 
      patent license agreement and settled their outstanding litigation by 
      mutually dismissing claims.
    
    
      In the agreement, Gemstar TV-Guide provides Digeo with a patent license 
      to cover Digeo’s currently deployed program 
      guides (IPGs), as well as IPGs that Digeo plans to deploy with service 
      providers and for use on consumer electronic (CE) and personal computer 
      (PC) platforms.
    
    
      Financial terms were not disclosed.
    
    
      About Gemstar-TV Guide
    
    
      Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (the “Company”) 
      (NASDAQ: GMST) is a leading global media, entertainment, and technology 
      company that develops, licenses, markets and distributes products and 
      services that maximize the video guidance and entertainment experience 
      for consumers. The Company's businesses include: television, publishing, 
      and new media properties; interactive program guide services and 
      products; and intellectual property licensing. Additional information 
      about the Company can be found at www.gemstartvguide.com.
    
    
      About Digeo, Inc.
    
    
      Digeo, Inc. creates state-of-the-art home entertainment technologies, 
      including digital media recorder (DMR) platforms and services. The 
      company’s mission is to enable the best 
      consumer experience in high-definition entertainment for the connected 
      home.
    
    
      Digeo's flagship product - the two-time Emmy® 
      Award-winning Moxi Media Center - serves as a hub for whole-home 
      distribution of digital entertainment and more than 400,000 units have 
      been shipped to more than 100 markets by eight cable operators 
      nationwide. The company also licenses its technology to third-party 
      companies as the user interface, application or customer connection 
      portal to drive their products or services. Backed primarily by Paul 
      Allen's Vulcan, Inc., Digeo is based in Kirkland, Wash. For more 
      information, please visit www.digeo.com.
    
    
      This news release may contain forward-looking statements within the 
      meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as 
      amended. Any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of 
      future performance or results and involve risks and uncertainties that 
      may cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those 
      in the forward-looking statements, including risks and uncertainties 
      related to the timely availability and market acceptance of products and 
      services incorporating the Company's technologies and content; our 
      investments in new and existing businesses; the impact of competitive 
      products and services; the pending acquisition of the Company by 
      Macrovision Corporation and events and circumstances related thereto; 
      and the other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC 
      reports, including the most recent reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, 
      each as it may be amended from time to time. The Company assumes no 
      obligation to update these forward-looking statements
    
    
      Note to Editors: Gemstar and TV Guide are trademarks or registered 
      trademarks of Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. and/or its 
      subsidiaries. The names of other companies, products and services used 
      herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of 
      their respective owners.
    
    
      Digeo®, 
      Moxi® 
      are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Digeo, Inc. Use 
      of the trademarks and service marks of the National Television Academy (“NTA”), 
      including the mark EMMY®, 
      requires the prior express written permission of National Television 
      Academy. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.