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Built for TV, the Espial Escape 5.1 browser enables the same browsing experience on the television that people have come to expect from their personal computers.
Supporting Microsoft Internet Explorer extensions to the current web content standards, Escape renders the same content to TV as IE renders to the traditional desktop.
It features built in support for integrated multimedia plug-ins like Macromedia Flash, Real Networks Real One Player and MP3.
Fit-to-width, font flooring and other features adapt the Internet content for ideal television viewing.
"One of the greatest challenges in bringing Internet content to every home has been ensuring that the pages show accurately whether they are on a traditional desktop, television, mobile phone or PDA", says Dr Neale Foster, Director of Marketing for Television at Espial.
"It's not easy adapting the software requirements designed for a resource-rich desktop environment to the resource-constrained TV market.
This is an investment necessary to deliver the value of emerging broadband networks".
The new version is already shipping to: Amino, MotionMedia, MyOrigo, Myrio, Siemens VDO, Entone and Tomra.
Espial has taken a market-leading position in television browser software, with solutions that focus on TV issues and standards and enable TV friendly functionality.
This new capability enables rapid creation of: enhanced programme guides; video on demand presentation interfaces; streaming media applications leveraging IGMP, RTP, RTSP; enhanced TV capabilities including walled garden T-commerce, T-learning; media convergence applications including digital photo display and home media management; and full Internet browser on TV capabilities.
"One of the key factors for a successful DTV application is the ability to faithfully render web content for a TV viewer", says Vamsi Sistla, Director of Broadband and Residential Entertainment Technologies at ABI Research.
"Following formal and informal web standards to bring the Internet to TV is an efficient way to merge the Internet and TV worlds".
In contrast to other browser solutions, Espial complies with international television standards including MHP, OCAP and ARIB and supports internationalisation to meet the requirements of customers in North America, the Middle East, the Far East and Europe.
Low development risk and faster time to market can be achieved easily as Escape leverages a single code base to support all popular embedded platforms including MIPS, PPC, ST Micro and X86 processors using Linux or other embedded operating systems.
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