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Published on Thursday, 31 March 2011 07:28
Espial, a provider of On-Demand TV solutions, announced that the Espial TV Browser is powering consumer electronics major Hitachi's latest Connected TV models being shipped into the Japanese market.This is in order to achieve its goal of being one of the premium TV suppliers to the Japanese Market
Working with Espial, Hitachi claims to be the first manufacturer to ship
a connected TV in Japan and the browser is said to be the first
WebKit-based browser to support standards and web portals such as BML,
AcTVila with full VOD download and VOD streaming capabilities, Yahoo
Doga, Wooonet (Portal site). Other benefits of the Espial TV Browser include its ability to
operate in both HTML and BML modes. This reduces ROM resources since
it's one-codebase for two browsers instead of two-codebases for two
browsers.
Kenji
Katsumata, general manager, Visual Technology Solutions Digital AV Products Division, Hitachi Consumer Electronics, said:
“We were impressed with the performance of the Espial TV Browser at
first sight. Hitachi is committed to open standards and we believe that
WebKit is the ideal foundation for the web TV experience."
“We are pleased to help Hitachi take a market leadership postion in the
Connected TV experience for Japanese consumers,” said Yukio Kanemori,
Japan country sales director, Espial.
