Delivers Unmatched Performance, PC-like Experience and Over-The-Top Video
News - Achieves PC-like performance with fast web page load times and over 100x improvement in JavaScript load times over the previous Espial browser version. - Web video ready with built-in Adobe Flash support for popular websites like YouTube and BBC iPlayer including High Definition video. - Supports latest interactive TV standards such as Hybrid Broadband TV (HbbTV) and Open IPTV Forum (OIPF). - "10-foot" web-TV experience with remote control navigation, TV- optimized user interface and a virtual keyboard. - B based on the powerful WebKit engine used by Google Chrome and Apple Safari browsers. This provides rapid access to new features from the open source community and broad website support. - Performance optimizations include memory management, speed boost, stability enhancement and hardware acceleration. SDK is available for branding, JavaScript extensions, user interface customization and seamless porting across chipsets. - Delivers a PC-like browsing experience with support for the latest W3C web standards including SVG, CE-HTML (CEA-2014) and HTML5 on which it scores 100% for the popular Acid3 benchmark test. This ensures broad compatibility with web sites. - Provides fast time-to-market with reference ports to popular chipsets Intel, Broadcom, Sigma and ST Micro. - Espial Browser v5.x for Java-based platforms including Tru2way, Blu- ray, MHP and OCAP also available.
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"Espial TV Browser v6.0 is a high performance browser that enables connected TVs, Set-top boxes and TV service providers to offer a complete web and Over-The-Top video experience consistent with a PC," said Dilshan De Silva, Director Product Management, Browser Products. "Rich graphics & video support, high web standards compliance, together with industry leading speed and performance provides an ideal solution to enable a great TV web experience."
Tags/Keywords
Connected TV, WebTV, OTT, BML, HTML, W3C, IPTV, Cable TV, HbbTV, Adobe Flash, Open IPTV Forum, WebKit, AcTVila
Links - WebKit Open Source Project (http://webkit.org/) - Espial TV Browser (http://www.espial.com/products/evo_browser/) - HbbTV (http://www.hbbtv.org/) - Open IPTV Forum (http://www.openiptvforum.org/)
About Espial (http://www.espial.com/)
Espial is a leading supplier of high performance and open digital and IP TV software and solutions to service providers in the cable, telecommunications, hospitality and consumer electronics industries. Its middleware, video-on-demand and browser solutions provide superior service delivery, advanced service innovation tools and the flexibility to implement diverse pay-TV business models. Over 7 million licenses of its patented software are in use across the world. Espial is headquartered in
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For further information: Inquiries from press or analysts: Espial, Kirk Edwardson, Director, Marketing, Ottawa, Canada, e: [email protected], t: (613) 230-4770 x1145
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