Gemstar-TV Guide and LSI Logic Ink Multi-Year Deal to Create Reference Design Platforms for TV Guide on Screen

Gemstar-TV Guide and LSI Logic Ink Multi-Year Deal to Create Reference Design Platforms for TV Guide on Screen

Reference Design Platform Will Enable Consumer Electronic Manufacturers to More Quickly Deploy Gemstar-TV Guide's IPG for Consumer Electronics

LOS ANGELES and MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (NASDAQ:GMST), the leading provider of television information and guidance, and LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI), a leader in multimedia processing for the Digital Home, have signed a multi-year agreement under which they will develop a reference design platform for TV Guide On Screen, Gemstar-TV Guide's interactive program guide (IPG) for consumer electronics that is built directly into CE products.

Reference design platforms provide consumer electronics manufacturers with a design starting point to accelerate custom development of their products. The new reference platforms will combine TV Guide On Screen with the power of LSI Logic DoMiNo(TM) single-chip DVD and HDD recorder processors, providing manufacturers with a more efficient means of developing IPG-enabled digital recording devices. LSI Logic processors enable reduced cost, design complexity and time-to-market through high levels of system integration, as well as rich feature sets including the industry's highest-quality video.

"As the demand for high-quality, cost-competitive digital recorders grows, it is extremely important to provide our CE manufacturer partners with optimal, cost-effective solutions to integrate TV Guide On Screen into their products," said Doug Macrae, president of TV Guide Consumer Electronics. "Our collaboration with LSI Logic allows our CE partners to take advantage of cutting-edge technology while ensuring their products are brought to market quickly."

"Gemstar-TV Guide is known as the leader in interactive programming guides, and LSI Logic as the leading supplier of silicon devices for the DVD Recorder market, we're pleased to be working with them to enable next- generation DVD and HDD recorder models," said Umesh Padval, executive vice president of the LSI Logic Consumer Products Division. "Together, we are quickly bringing consumers easy-to-use features that will continue to drive the fast-growing digital video recording market."

TV Guide On Screen in North America has signed new licensing deals with more than a dozen consumer electronics manufacturers in the past two years. Licensees now include: Hitachi, Sony Corporation, JVC, LG/Zenith, Matsushita (Panasonic), Mitsubishi, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, Thomson (makers of the RCA, GE and Scenium brands), TiVo, and Toshiba.

TV Guide On Screen is an IPG built directly into consumer electronics products, including digital televisions, digital video recorders (DVRs) and DVD recorders. The guide offers interactive on-screen program listings from TV Guide, the most trusted name in television guidance, that enable viewers to quickly and easily navigate, sort, select, and schedule television programming for viewing and recording, all with simple remote control commands.

TV Guide On Screen provides powerful, easy-to-use recording and playback features for DVD and hard disc recorders. TV Guide On Screen's patented technology delivers daily updated program listings to users, regardless of whether they receive their television signal via cable or an over-the-air broadcast. TV Guide On Screen works by simply plugging in the television or recording device and configuring the guide through a simple set-up process. The guide requires no subscription or phone connection and is available at no extra cost to the consumer.

TV Guide On Screen, Inc. is a subsidiary of Gemstar-TV Guide, International, Inc.

The LSI Logic line of DoMiNo DVD and HDD recorder processors consists of the industry's first feature-rich, single-chip recorder solutions. The high level of integration on a single chip reduces design complexity and provides system designers with considerable savings on the overall bill of materials. The DoMiNo processors include LSI Logic's DoMiNoFX(TM) proprietary pre- and post-processing technologies. These motion compensation-based technologies provide advanced progressive scan output and impressive noise handling on analog inputs. Additional advantages include the LSI Logic Direct Digital Dub(TM) technology that simplifies the transfer of personal digital content from a camcorder over FireWire, with one-touch control via a single remote.

About Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc.

Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc., is a leading media and technology company that develops, licenses, markets and distributes technologies, products and services targeted at the television guidance and home entertainment needs of consumers worldwide. The Company's businesses include: television media and publishing properties; interactive program guide services and products; and technology and intellectual property licensing. Additional information about the Company can be found at www.gemstartvguide.com.

Except for historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks and uncertainties related to declines in our magazine business; timely availability and market acceptance of products and services incorporating the Company's technologies and content; our new initiatives aimed at increasing advertising revenues at the TV Guide Channel; the impact of competitive products and pricing; ongoing and potential future litigation; 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.

About LSI Logic Corporation

LSI Logic Corporation focuses on the design and production of high- performance semiconductors for Consumer, Communications and Storage applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. LSI Logic engineers incorporate reusable, industry-standard intellectual property building blocks that serve as the heart of leading-edge systems. LSI Logic serves its global OEM, channel and distribution customers with Platform ASICs, standard-cell ASICs, standard products, host bus adapters, RAID controllers and software. In addition, the company supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1621 Barber Lane, Milpitas, CA 95035.

http://www.lsilogic.com/ .

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Source: LSI Logic Corporation

CONTACT: Jacqui Gladden of LSI Logic Corporation, +1-408-433-7912, or
jgladden@lsil.com; or Linda Capcara of Brodeur, +1-602-758-9283, or
lcapcara@brodeur.com, for LSI Logic; or press, Marisa Grimes, +1-212-852-7571,
or analysts, Robert L. Carl, +1-323-817-4600, both of Gemstar-TV Guide

Web site: http://www.gemstartvguide.com/

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