Helps Enhance Entertainment and Enable Consumers to See Movies as the Artists Intended

THX Ltd. announced two key milestones in its collaboration with Rovi Corporation that will enable content creators and distributors to take advantage of THX Media Director™. THX Media Director is a technology that enables filmmakers to define, through metadata, specific audio and video characteristics of a title. This metadata is then read and acted upon by consumer electronics equipment, from TVs to receivers, to automatically select the most appropriate playback settings for optimal presentation of the content.

Get Ready to Challenge Your Friends and Family to Competitive Mini-Games While Enjoying fun Musical Beats Inspired by Rio the Movie

THQ Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products today announced that the RIO video game is scheduled to be available on April 12, for a suggested retail price of $29.99 across all platforms: Xbox 360^(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation^(R)3 computer entertainment system, the Wii^(TM) system, and the Nintendo DS^(TM) family of hand-held systems. RIO is rated E10+ for everyone 10 and older on the console systems and E for everyone on Nintendo DS.

Inspired by Fox's upcoming 3D event, RIO - THE MOVIE, the video game translates the film's scope and grandeur, which is alive with color, music, adventure and fun, into a series of fast-paced mini-games that up to four players can enjoy.