Press Release

Ottawa,Ontario - Aug 22, 2011 - Espialtoday announced that the Espial TV Browser is now powering a wide range of consumer devices including Smart TVs, set-top boxes and digital media players. The Espial TV Browser is now commercially shipping in more than 25 languages across the world. To support this global reach, the Espial TV Browser has been optimized to support more than two dozen languages as well as the most popular search, news, video, photo, social and sports sites in dozens of countries.

News

• The Espial TV Browser is now powering Smart TVs, Digital Media Adapters, Set-top boxes and other consumer electronic devices across the world.
• The Espial TV Browser provides access to popular Search, News, Video, Photo, Social Networking and Sport Sites. The most popular websites are preset into the browser including Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Daily Motion, Picasa, Facebook, Twitter, ESPN, and more.
• The Espial TV Browser is based on WebKit, supports 25+ languages and is optimized to industry leading chipsets. It supports languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, European, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and many more.
• The Espial TV Browser, based on WebKit, delivers a PC-like web browsing experience, applications, widgets, video, HTML5 and Adobe Flash 10.1.
• See the Espial TV Browser demonstrated at IBC (Hall 5, Booth A18).

Quotes

"We're pleased to bring the full web experience to Smart TV consumers across the globe" stated Dilshan De Silva, Director Browser Products, Espial."The Espial TV Browser, based on WebKit, provides connected TVs with a complete web and video experience including Flash 10.1 and HTML5 support."

Tags/Keywords

WebKit, WebGL, OpenGL,1080p HD video playback, H.264, WMV, RMVB, MPEG-1/2/4 (part 2, ASP), DivX, DivX Plus HD (MKV), XviD, AVI(Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), ISO, VOB, MP4, MOV, MKV, DLNA, WiFi, QWERTY, Connected TV, WebTV, OTT, BML, HTML, W3C, IPTV, Cable TV, HbbTV, Adobe Flash 10.1, Open IPTV Forum, WebKit, AcTVila, NetTV, Smart TV, HTML5 video.

Links

• Espial
• TV Browser
• WebKit

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Espial

Kirk Edwardson

Espial Marketing

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t: +1-613-230-4770 x1145

c: +1.613.301.3423

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