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Espial TV Browser

Product Overview

High Performance TV Browser 

Espial TV Browser accelerates the deployment of TV web browsing, interactive TV content and over-the-top web video to your customers. Espial TV Browser (formerly branded as the Espial Escape Browser) is an embedded web browser that is designed to support the challenging browsing requirements of Connected TV's, STBs and internet devices. It is easily ported across devices and offers the latest and most advanced W3C web standards support. End-users will enjoy a compelling internet web browsing experience with Espial TV Browser, while manufacturers and developers can simply and quickly build customized user interfaces that deliver exciting, interactive applications and compelling content to consumers. It supports a range of end-user applications including web browsing, product menus, interactive advertising, email, chat, games and portal.

Espial TV Browser has been commercially deployed across a wide range of market segments and device categories including:

Market Segments

  • Television 
  • Hospitality
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Automotive

Devices 

  • IP Set-Top Boxes
  • Wireless Handheld Devices
  • Internet Appliances
  • Digital TVs
  • Information and Infotainment Kiosks
 

Features & Benefits  

  • WebKit-based core engine (used by both Google Chrome browser and Apple Safari) provide support for evolving web content. 
  • W3C Standards compliant - supports implementation of the latest Internet standards such as HTML 5, CSS3, AJAX, SVG, CE-HTML, DOM2, JavaScript 1.5.
  • Support vertical market standards - HbbTV, OpenIPTV Forum, DVB, MHP, OCAP, ARIB BML and OSGi.
  • 2D (remote control) navigation for TV
  • Portability Layer - enables easy porting to new platforms. Proven on variety of chipsets such as Intel, Sigma, STMicro, Broadcom, Toshiba and operating systems such as Linux, Wind River, and Microsoft.
  • Fully customizable user interface - supports brand and user experiece.
  • Open SDK and API - extend scripting to expose device capabilities to 3rd party content developers.
  • Multimedia capable - includes Adobe Flash plug-in.
  • International - support double-byte characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and right-to-left characters (Arabic, Hebrew), as well as an input method framework.
  • Modular architecture - develop applications based on the performance capabilities of  the device. Applications can be optimized for low-end resource-constrained devices and extended for more powerful devices.

Applications

TV Browser 

  • Internet Video - YouTube
  • Social Networking - Facebook, MySpace 
  • Internet Browsing
  • Walled Garden
  • Video-On-Demand Portal - Movies, TV Shows
  • News Portal
  • Weather Portal
  • Sports Portal
  • Games Portal

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Espial TV Browser

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Related Links

Whitepapers
Delivering Interactive, Personalized 3-Screen Services
Powering The Over-The-Top Future With Open Browser Technology
Powering The Over-The-Top Future With Open Browser Technology - Japanese
Datasheets
Espial Browser Datasheet - Chinese
Architecture Diagrams
Espial IPTV Solution Architecture
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