Yahoo is getting some competition from Pleyo for its Yahoo Widgets that CE makers are embedding in TV sets and Blu-ray players. Widgets allow TV viewers to access Web sites that CE makers have deals with for viewing video and text pages on Internet-connected TV sets or Blu-ray players.
During the IBC show in Amsterdam, Pleyo, a French software developer, showed its new HbbTV-compatible Origyn browser for TV sets. It has a widgets engine and extensions for interactive TV that’s based on the HbbTV standard. See "Europeans Develop New Set-Top Box Standard" at:
http://www.onlinereporter.com/article.php?article_id=16562
The Origyn browser is designed specifically for TV sets, TV decoders and other CE devices. It’s based on the Apple-derived Webkit.
HbbTV, a new standard for interactive TV in Europe, will be deployed in Germany first and then in France. It allows users to access interactive applications issued from broadcasting (satellite or over-the-air) and the Internet over a broadband network.
Pleyo adds to its browser a widgets engine that’s compliant with W3C specifications.
Pleyo users will have free access to 40 Web radio stations and the Deezer smart radio service on their TV sets.
The first deployment of the Pleyo browser with widgets and HbbTV will be in TV decoders from Inverto Digital Labs for the German market. |
