Leveraging HTML5, HbbTV, WebKit, and Advanced Chipset Capabilities,
Espial TV Browser Enhances the Smart TV and Set-Top Box Experience
OTTAWA, Aug. 14, 2013 /CNW/ - Espial, a leader in on-demand TV software
and solutions, today announced the latest version of the award-winning
Espial TV Browser, which delivers a significantly enhanced user
experience (UX) based on new HTML5, HbbTV, WebKit, and chipset
capabilities. Equipped with these advances, the Espial TV Browser is
one of today's most powerful application platforms for Web video,
broadcast video, social media, and Web browsing. Providing consumers
with an unmatched user experience when accessing HTML5 apps, the Espial
TV Browser was one of the first browsers to recently receive YouTube on
TV approval.
"Smart TV and set-top box manufacturers continue to look to the Espial
TV Browser as a platform to build their next-generation user experience
and apps," said Dilshan De Silva, head of browser products, Espial.
"Our browser continues to be the market leader in supporting the
world's premier HTML5 apps, most recently being one of the first to be
approved to deploy the new YouTube for TV premium subscription app. The
Espial TV Browser redefines the performance and experience consumers
can expect on TVs, providing rich 2D and 3D graphics, extremely fast
apps performance, multi-tab browsing, and many more advanced features."
The new version of the Espial TV Browser introduces powerful new
features to enable a compelling TV UX. These features include
picture-in-application, support for live TV tuners embedded in HTML5
apps, intelligent remote control mapping, and support for video trick
modes in any HTML5 app.
In addition, the latest browser simplifies the consumer TV experience.
An innovative multi-tab design provides consumers with the same
browsing experience available on desktop, tablet, and smartphone
browsers, while visual thumbnails simplify navigation of recent and
favorite websites. The Espial TV Browser also features multiple
resolution support and dynamic resolution switching for HTML5 apps;
advanced memory manager to support unlimited multiple app windows; and
sophisticated cache management of HTML5 local storage and offline apps
for added security.
Espial TV Browser support for the HbbTV 1.5 specification allows
broadcasters to deliver a range of innovative broadcast TV services and
Web applications that improve their television user experience. With
HbbTV version 1.5, broadcasters can support cutting-edge capabilities
such as metadata search APIs, MPEG-DASH, and integration with common
DRM systems. Espial's long-term commitment to the specification is
demonstrated through leadership roles on the HbbTV consortium's
steering and marketing groups. In addition, Espial is an active
contributor to the HbbTV and OIPF specifications.
Over the last year, the Espial TV Browser has been integrated onto
numerous Smart TVs and set-top boxes from leading global manufacturers
such as Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Pace, Cisco, Hisense,
Hitachi, and more. The Espial TV Browser has also been ported to a wide
range of industry-leading chipsets including Broadcom, MStar, MTK,
Panasonic Semiconductor, and Sigma.
More information about the Espial TV Browser and the company's other
products is available at www.espial.com.
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About Espial (www.espial.com)
Espial is a leading supplier of digital TV and IPTV software and
solutions to cable MSOs and telecommunications operators as well as
consumer electronics manufacturers. Espial's middleware,
video-on-demand, and browser products power a diverse range of pay-TV
and Internet TV business models. Over 35 million licenses of its
patented software are in use across the world. Espial is headquartered
in Ottawa, Canada and has offices in the United States, Europe, and
Asia. Visit www.espial.com or contact via phone at +1 613 230 4770.
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