1st Macrovision Licensed DVD Authoring Facility in Scotland.

Business & Entertainment Editors/High-Tech Writers

LONDON--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000

Macrovision UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Macrovision Corporation of Sunnyvale, California (Nasdaq:MVSN) announce that Viscom Aberdeen is now fully licensed to incorporate Macrovision's proprietary copy protection technology at the authoring stage of the DVD-video manufacturing process.

Mark Philip, Viscom's Multimedia Manager, said "We believe in investing in technology and DVD satisfies the most demanding applications allowing full motion broadcast quality video to be realized in disc for the first time. Piracy is all too common a word in today's society but with Macrovision's technology we are one step ahead."

Macrovision's DVD copy protection is designed to prevent unauthorized copying of DVD programming to VCRs without impacting the original picture. It is now used on most DVD titles being released and is the only technology of its kind that is currently available to protect against unauthorized copying from DVD players to VCRs. The majority of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) studios copy protect all of their DVDs. Macrovision's DVD copy protection has been utilized on over 75 percent of all DVD discs manufactured worldwide since 1997 (i.e., over 180 million DVDs to-date).

"We are delighted to welcome Viscom Aberdeen to the ever growing fold of Macrovision licensed facilities providing our copy protection technology for DVD. As the first Macrovision licensed facility in Scotland we wish Viscom every success for the future," said Michael Welch, sales & marketing manager of Macrovision.

About Viscom Aberdeen

Viscom's edge comes from 13 years of experience in developing multimedia products with a programme of investment in new technology, leading the way forward in the use of innovative custom coding within their DVD products. Viscom in the last 9 months have invested over 160,000 pounds in digital facilities including Avid symphony suite, extending its existing Digital Betacam aquisition equipment and real-time variable bit rate DVD compliant MPEG2 encoding.

About Macrovision

Macrovision Corporation develops and markets content copy protection and rights management technologies and products to prevent the unauthorized duplication, reception or use of video and audio programs and computer software. Macrovision provides its products and services primarily to the consumer multimedia and business software publishers, home video, pay-per-view, cable, satellite and video security markets. Macrovision has its headquarters in Sunnyvale with subsidiaries in London and Tokyo.

All statements contained herein, as well as oral statements that may be made by the Company or by officers, directors or employees of the Company acting on the Company's behalf, that are not statements of historical fact, constitute "forward-looking statements" and are made pursuant to the Safe-Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the actual results of the Company to be materially different from the historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties are outlined in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 1999, the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is not obligated to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.

Additional background information on Macrovision Corporation can be obtained from our Web Site at www.macrovision.com.