News Release from: The Espial Group
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 May 2004
"Skinned" application software drives digital TV
Espial Evo is a comprehensive application suite focused on meeting the critical requirements of digital TVs.
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Espial Evo is a comprehensive application suite focused on meeting the critical requirements of digital TVs. It includes critical applications that will reduce the time to market and bill of materials cost of digital LCD, plasma, projection, and CRT TVs to the USA. Espial Evo positions Espial to capitalise on the digital shift in the television market, and accelerate personalisation trends in consumer electronics.
Unlike competing technologies, Espial Evo user interfaces can be easily customised to allow branding across consumer electronic devices, including "gaming-like" transitions and effects.
Using markup languages like HTML, television skins can be changed quickly and easily by a designer, as it requires no changes or effects to the underlying code.
"Consumer electronics manufacturers have been looking for the ability to easily customise the look and feel of their consumer electronics designs as a way to stand out from the competition".
"Differentiation is a must in this crowded CE landscape", said Vamsi Sistla, Director of Broadband and Residential Entertainment Technologies at ABI Research.
"From a technology standpoint, application layer software - along with latest interfaces, micro display technologies and high computing power, is proving to be another valuable differentiator for CE OEMs".
Evo has been created with a modular architecture that allows television manufacturers to easily include additional features and optional components.
Evo Display is a "skin-able" on-screen display application including a scalable menu system, configurable remote control-activated visual display and 708-B configuration for DTV tuners.
Evo Guide is a skin-able electronic programme guide application with basic now-and-next as well as grid-based, multi-day information; it can display PSIP and DVB-SI data through the skin-able user interface.
Evo Viewer is an extended HTML and CableCard content viewer that supports the CableLabs requirement in the US for CableCard content with extended tag and transition support for other "managed content" browsing.
Television manufacturers are anxious to deliver advanced capabilities to their customers but must work within a BOM-driven, resource-constrained environment.
The Espial Evo framework can be pared down to a tiny 100Kbyte footprint suitable for consumer-grade performance on a 50MHz processor.
This degree of efficiency will raise the bar on advanced capabilities for the mass market.
"We need to differentiate the look and feel of the many analogue and iDTV brands that we take to market and we need to do this with minimum turn around time.
The Espial Evo solution bundles in the most important applications (display and guide) with an easy-to-customise user interface", said Simon Roh, Managing Director of Techsan UK.
"We were intrigued to see cutting edge UI transitions and techniques that are effective on even the simplest TV design".
Evo supports all popular embedded platforms including MIPS, PPC, ST Micro, and X86 processors using Linux or other embedded operating systems.
The product is available immediately, worldwide.
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