Espial TV Browser Powers the Smart TV Experience

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Nov 03, 2010, 06:00 ET

Now Available on Intel® CE Media Processor Reference Platform

OTTAWA, Nov. 3 /CNW/ - Espial®, a leader in On-Demand TV solutions, today announced the availability of Espial TV Browser powered by Intel set-top box reference platforms based on the Intel® Atom™ processor CE4100 and the recently announced Intel® Atom™ processor CE4200. With the Espial TV Browser, consumers will enjoy the power of interactive, connected and searchable TVs. For Connected TV and set-top box manufacturers, this high performance solution will accelerate their time-to-market.

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  • Espial TV Browser will support key Intel reference platforms for next-generation Connected TVs. With Intel processors and the Espial TV Browser, Smart TVs can deliver on the promise of interactivity, web connectivity and searchability.

  • Espial TV Browser, a highly optimized WebKit-based browser, now supports Intel's consumer electronics (CE) media processor reference platforms and includes support for Adobe Flash 10.1, Adobe FlashLite 4.0, Flash video and HTML5 Video. Espial TV Browser will also support the Intel® Atom™ processor CE4200 as well as the Intel® Atom™ processor CE4100.

  • Espial TV Browser is a high performance browser that provides TV centric navigation features, high performance HTML5 and CSS3 animations, Flash, SVG, JavaScript and HTML speeds for highly responsive web browsing and user interfaces.

  • Espial TV Browser provides additional WebKit modules and features that support the latest interactive TV standards and video content sites including:
    • Europe:  HbbTV and BBC iPlayer in Europe.
    • Japan:  BML and NetTV-based services such as AcTVila.
    • North America:  Adobe Flash 10.1 and HTML5 video support for web video sites, including YouTube.
    • China: popular video web sites in China like Youku, Toudu, Sina Video, Baidu Video, CNTV, Haushu and ku6.
  • The combined solution increases development velocity and reduces project risk for device makers looking to bring high quality Internet video, web and user interface experience to their televisions, consumer electronics and set-top box devices.

  • View an overview of the Espial TV Browser on YouTube:

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"Espial TV Browser is a high performance WebKit-based browser that delivers a PC-like web browsing and web video experience" said Dilshan De Silva, Director Product Management for TV Browser Products. "We have optimized our browser with the Intel CE media processor reference platform to increase development velocity, reduce costs and minimize risk for device manufacturers.  This allows them to commercially deploy a stable, high performance WebKit-based TV browser solution in record time."

"The Intel CE series processors bring an unprecedented level of applications processing and graphics performance to the Internet video appliance and set-top box markets.  Espial's support of Intel's CE4100 and CE4200 platforms should allow it to add new functions and to create new value propositions quickly." Stephen Froehlich, Senior Market Analyst, Consumer Electronics Research Group, IMS Research.

Tags/Keywords

Connected TV, WebTV, OTT, BML, HTML, W3C, IPTV, Cable TV, HbbTV, Adobe Flash, Open IPTV Forum, WebKit, AcTVila, NetTV, Smart TV

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