Sigma Designs Pre-Integrates Reference Chipset Platform With Espial TV Browser

Accelerates Time-To-Market For Device Manufacturers

OTTAWA, Ontario — Espial® (TSX:ESP), a leader in On-Demand TV software and solutions, today announced a partnership with Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM). To allow device manufacturers to achieve rapid to time-to-market, Espial and Sigma Designs have pre-integrated Espial TV Browser version 6.0 and Adobe Flash on Sigma Design chipset reference platforms.

• Espial TV Browser (based on WebKit) is pre-integrated with Sigma reference platforms and includes support for Adobe Flash, Flash video and HTML5 Video.
• The combined solution reduces project risk and shortens time to market for device manufactures with: out-of-box availability, unmatched performance, excellent stability, and rapid time-to-market.
• Espial TV Browser features high-speed web rendering on Sigma chipsets. This enables fast HTML, SVG or JavaScript user interfaces, a PC-like web browsing experience and over-the-top video support for sites like YouTube and BBC iPlayer.

“Espial TV Browser v6.0 is a high performance WebKit-based browser for a PC-like browsing experience, including video.” said Dilshan De Silva, Director Product Management for TV Browser Products. “We have optimized and pre-integrated our browser with Sigma designs SMP865x reference platforms to help reduce integration timeline, cost and risk for device manufacturers to commercially deploy a WebKit-based browser solution on devices with these chipsets.”

“Our chipsets support a full suite of content formats, hardware security along with best in class video processing” said Ken Lowe, VP Strategic Marketing. Integrating multimedia with a fast and stable browser delivers a seamless TV user experience for over the top content expected with the latest multimedia players and set top boxes. Espial Browser v6.0 incorporates WebKit, the same engine used by Google Chrome and Apple Safari.”