Roxio Toast 11 Now Available

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq:ROVI) today launched Roxio ^® Toast ^® 11 Titanium for Mac ^® . Toast 11 is a major update that helps extend Mac OS and iLife ^® applications with new capabilities and feature enhancements for capturing, copying, converting and enjoying personal digital media and entertainment. Toast 11 serves as a powerful media hub that makes it simple to take virtually any piece of digital media - regardless of format or where it resides - and share and enjoy it practically anywhere and on any device.

Toast 11 has been redesigned from the ground up and showcases a new interface that we believe users will find modern and intuitive. More importantly, the overhaul of this long-time Mac standard offers refined workflows along with built-in video tutorials that make it easier for existing Toast users and those new to the program to quickly complete a broad range of media tasks.

See a video overview of Toast 11 here:

http://www.roxio.com/enu/company/press/releases/2011/roxio_toast_11_now_available.html

"From personal photos and home movies, to streaming Internet radio and user-generated content on YouTube ^™, people are enjoying media in many forms and from a variety of sources," said Corey Ferengul, EVP of Products at Rovi Corporation. "The pain often comes when attempting to move a piece of media between devices or platforms. This is where Toast really shines – it gets the media you love where you want it, effortlessly."

For existing users, Toast 11 adds many requested features such as recording to multiple drives simultaneously, a streamlined product update mechanism, and the ability to save custom video profiles, which is very useful for those that are often converting video for a particular device. The latest version now also offers built-in features for directly uploading media to social networking sites such as YouTube ^™, Vimeo ^® , or Facebook ^® and technology optimizations, dubbed VideoBoost, that help dramatically speed H.264 (high definition) video conversion or encoding.

New or exclusive-to-Toast features include: Internet audio recording; the ability to capture, save, and convert Web-based video content; disc spanning (automatically spreading a large amount of data or audio tracks across many discs); one-click backup of HD camcorder footage; dual-platform compatible disc creation; and TiVo-to-Go support.