ADB Selects Espial Escape XLET for I-CAN(tm) Set-Top Box

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Espial Scaleable HTML Content Rendering Engine Fuels Advanced Set of Features And Services for ADB DVB-MHP box

IBC, Amsterdam-(PRWEB)Sept. 12, 2003--Espial, the leaders in TV application Software announced today it has been selected as a preferred supplier of software for Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB.) Advanced Digital Broadcast is a knowledge-based and technology oriented organization that designs and integrates highly sophisticated software and hardware systems for digital TV. With more than two million deployed set-top box units, ADB is a leading supplier to customers in 15 countries around the world.

"This demo highlights revenue-generating applications that can deployed with no porting using the Espial Suite for TV. Espial Escape provides the scalability and the MHP/OCAP functionality that is crucial for our worldwide deployments," said Rick Smith, VP, Sales, at ADB. "ADB's and Espial's leadership in technology development is clearly what is needed for the TV operators to bring advanced services to market quickly."

The technology collaboration enables ADB further market penetration into deployments that are evolving to MHP. MHP/OCAP middleware delivers a variety of expanded benefits for the cable operator, including the ability to download new applications independent of the hardware vendor, consistency in the user interface and more application options. MHP enables full media convergence in set-top boxes providing the most advanced interactive television experience possible.

"We are pleased to be working with ADB to demonstrate how Espial Suite for TV can be deployed on a wide-scale basis quickly and effectively," said Dr. Neale Foster, Director of Marketing, TV at Espial. "As operators/broadcasters and software developers look for cost-effective solutions that improve time-to-market, they realize Espial provides the essential software in a scalable package, from a tiny 125k broadcast XLET to full Internet access."

Espial Suite for TV enables revenue generating interactive services such as enhanced TV, interactive advertising-driven TF, rendering HTML from the video stream, photo image display, wall-garden display, browser based email, and full Internet access. MHP and OCAP are emerging rapidly in Europe, and the US respectively, due to the industry momentum behind the benefits of a truly open platform for the operators, manufacturers, broadcasters and content/application developers worldwide.

Espial Suite for TV will be debuted in the ADB Stand 11.641 at the International Broadcasting Convention.

About Espial
Espial is the leader in providing scalable TV application software for next generation television products. Espial software allows the creation of TV user interface solutions that build revenue via email, chat, games, program guides, broadcaster-content browsers, photo viewers, and Internet, while maintaining look and feel of the user interface. With more than 90 consumer electronic wins with companies such as Motorola, On Command, LodgeNet, Philips, Sony and Samsung, Espial had deployed proven solutions which apply universally across sectors including TV, wireless, automotive, and other connected devices. For more information, visit www.espial.com.

About ADB
Advanced Digital Broadcast received the top prize in the "Best Interactive TV Technology or Application" category for its MHP receiver middleware stack. The honor was announced during the annual Cable and Satellite of the Year Awards, held in London, in May 2003. ADB's DTV MHP set-top box, the trademarked i-CAN, also was a runner-up in the "Best Terrestrial DTV Technology" category.

ADB employs some 300 staff in offices in Switzerland, Australia, Poland, Spain, in the Philippines, the United States, and in Taiwan. Of this total staff, more than 200 work as development engineers, principally in the company's Software Engineering facility in Zielona Gora, western Poland, in Manila, and in ADB's Advanced Interactive Application Development Center in Sydney, Australia.
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For further information, please contact:

Craig Olson
Media Relations, Espial
+1 515 224 7641
colson@espial.com