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05/08/08 - 03:48 PM EDT
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The company's guide cable and satellite subscriber base grew 14% year over year, to 78.8 million households. Subscribers to Macrovision's mobile-device guides grew 60% in Japan to 24 million users. In content protection, Macrovision's studio clients already include DisneyDIS, Paramount and News Corp.'sNWS Fox, and its set-top-box customers include Cisco'sCSCO Scientific-Atlanta division and MotorolaMOT. Major cable and satellite clients include ComcastCMCSA and DirectTVDTV. Budge said the company would be restored to its traditional stock symbol MVSN on June 2.
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