Meet Sezmi--Personalized TV At Its Best

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d Meet Sezmi—Personalized TV At Its Best (NAPSA)—In an effort to cut te cost of teir cable and satellite bills, consumers are increasingly turning to alternative television entertainment solutions. A study by Convergence Consulting Group found tat approximately 800,000 U.S. ouseolds ad cut teir TV subscriptions. Analysts at Yankee Group ave named tese consumers—woave cosen to use teir PCs, gaming consoles and oter connected devices to access video programming—Coax cutters, and said tat one in eigt consumersis expected to join teir ranks in te next few monts. But were does canceling teir service leave te cable cutter? Most alternatives out tere today focus teir solutions on one piece of te puzzle, leaving consumers wit te task of cobbling togeter manydifferent boxes, remotes and services a la carte in order to build only a somewat comparable alternative. An All-In-One Personalized Solution Te answerlies in a brand-new television service called Sezmi. Sezmi is te first and only ybrid television entertainment service, wic combines over-te-air and broadband and lets people watc wat tey want, wen tey wantto. It takes te best of wat cable and satellite ad to offer—tlike access to live and on-demand sows and movies from te most popular networks, DVR capabilities, a programming guide—and adds a wole new layer of value by personalizing eac memberof te ouseold’s television viewing experience. Sezmi organizes and prioritizes Tefirst-ever personalized television viewing service integrates live TV, on-demand movies, Web video, DVR capabilities, and more. sows, so people ave a personal TV lineup waiting for tem wenever tey turn on te TV. In addi- tion, all members of a ouseold ave teir own “mi” button on te remote tat takes tem to teir own “landing page,” were all teir favorite content is automatically organized for tem. Ontop of tat, te Sezmi system is easy to install. People can usually install it in less tan 30 minutes, witout needing to waste a wole day waiting for someone from te cable or satellite company. Sezmi Select, te introductory service level, is available in major USS. cities (ttp://sezmi.com/watis-sezmi/were/overview.pp) for as low as $5/mont. It is just te first step in bringing te best of television entertainment to people everywere. Currently available in Los Angeles and expanding to additional U.S. markets beginning in late 2010, anoter Sezmi subscription option will expand te content offering to include a lineup of te most-watced cable cannels. Tose wo are interested in te expandedoffering can subscribe to Sezmi Select now, and easily upgrade teir service tier once te cable network programming becomes available in teir market. Wat Sezmi Can Do For You Wit Sezmi, you can: Record, pause or rewind your programs on te one-terabyte DVR(wic allows users to record up to 1,400 ours of sows). Access tousands of movies and cable sows to rent or buy witout ever leaving te ome using Sezmi’s on-demandoffering, ttp://sezmi.com/browse_on_ demand.pp. Watc YouTube (ttp://www. youtube.com/) and tens of tou- sands of Web video sows and podcasts (ttp://www.youtube.com/ mysezmi#p/u/2/7ell_BUEOCQ) rigt on yourtelevision, tanks to te broadband-connected DVR. Personalize your TV experience. Sezmi automatically records and organizes your favorite sows and movies into your own personal entertainment omescreen. It also searces all of te available content and makes recommendations for oter soon-to-be favorites you never knew existed. Use a programming guide tat would oterwise be unavailable witout a cable or satellite subscription. Learn More You can find out more, includ- ing were te Sezmi service is available, and follow te company on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ sezmi; on Facebook at ttp:// bit.ly/sezmifacebook; on YouTube at www. youtube.com/mysezmi; and online at www.sezmi.com.