--Escape Browser Integrated by Orca, Philips, Kreatel
--Evo Client Middleware and Apps Integrated by STMicroelectronics, i3
Canadian set-top box software provider, Espial, timed a number of announcements to coincide with the recent IBC show in Amsterdam:
- The company said that Israeli IPTV middleware and applications provider, Orca Interactive, has integrated its Espial Escape browser, together with the latter's Macromedia Flash 6.0 plug-in, into its new SUI SDK for Flash (see article in this issue). Espial Escape features include fit-to-width page rendering and remote control navigation, and W3C and television standards support for HTML 4, DHTML, JavaScript 1.5, DOM1, DOM2-Events, CSS2.1 and CSS-TV. The company says that the browser's standards support enables a rich, dynamic HTML environment for the accelerated development of portals and other interactive content services. "Espial Escape's advanced browsing capabilities offer subscribers the opportunity to subscribe to dynamic content and services while also browsing the Web," Orca Interactive marketing director, Shlomit Hacohen, said in a prepared statement. "Espial Escape's browser functionality complements our objective to provide telcos with fast and simple Flash SUI development capabilities that optimize the user experience while reducing costs and speeding time-to-market of IPTV services."
- It said that Philips has integrated the Espial Escape browser into its STB810 semiconductor reference design. "Integrating Espial Escape in our STB810 semiconductor reference design ensures service providers differentiate their offerings with a fast time-to-market and attract the attention of more IPTV subscribers," Menno Kleingeld, Philips' marketing director for set-top box and home media devices, said in a prepared statement.
- It said that IP set-top vendor, Kreatel, has licensed Espial Escape. According to Kreatel president and CEO, Lars Bengtsson, his company decided to license the browser because of its "pre-integration with popular IPTV middleware." IPTV middleware providers that have integrated the browser include Siemens-subsidiary, Myrio.
- It said that it has integrated its Espial Evo client middleware and applications with STMicroelectronics' family of ST Decoder set-top box decoder chips, in order to create a turnkey IPTV service delivery platform that reduces operator time-to-market. According to Espial, Espial Evo is based on an innovative architecture which separates the core application logic from the user interface design, and which Espial says eliminates the performance penalties sometimes associated with browsers, such as progressive page loading and blanking. The product incorporates a variety of applications, including VOD, an EPG, walled garden portal, settings and browser. "Customers of ST Decoder solutions for IP set-top boxes are looking for applications with instantaneous responsiveness, while fitting into low cost designs," Roger Walker, general manager of STMicroelectronics' Interactive Service Solutions Division, said in a prepared statement. "We are delighted with Espial Evo due to its innovative design--providing our customers with turnkey IPTV applications, while maintaining standards-based content and UI design."
- It said that it has signed a strategic partnership with set-top box manufacturer, i3 micro technology, and that, as a result, Espial Evo has been integrated into the latter's Mood 100 IP set-top boxes. The partnership agreement will also see the i3 set-top boxes serving as Espial's reference design platform for IP set-tops.
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