To: Maya who wrote (42194 ) 6/15/1999 10:00:00 PM From: John Rieman Respond to of 50808
An ESS partner in SVCD...................... EnReach TV Web Browser Included in Excite@Home Broadband Cable Set-Top Demo Excite@Home Set-Top Box Software Platform Leverages Unique, Extensible Plug-In Architecture of EnReach Web Browser for Television CHICAGO, June 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Excite@Home Network (Nasdaq: ATHM), the leading provider of high-speed Web services and open access to the Internet via the cable infrastructure and EnReach Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of Entertainment and Internet solutions for TV unveiled an advanced broadband cable set-top box platform demo using the EnReach TV Browser at the National Cable Television Association's Cable '99 show today. The @Home TV Client Software Environment for Interactive TV is a high performance navigation environment for high speed data and Internet access services to the TV. Based on Internet technology standards, it can easily be ported between OpenCable compliant advanced set-top box platforms. The EnReach TV Browser is a complete highly flexible web browser and HTML application development software platform combining not only technologies designed to meet the special needs of the TV user but also the ability to integrate Internet web browsing into almost any new or existing set-top box, operating system, application, and graphical user interface environment (GUI). EnReach TV Browser also features a customizable 100% HTML-based GUI enabling the separation of user interface design activities from engineering and development processes. "We are extremely excited about interactive TV services on the OpenCable Development Platform," said Jeff Huber, @Home's Director of Set-Top Products. "EnReach's extremely compact and flexible TV browser allowed us to bring advanced web browsing capabilities to new set-top box platforms very quickly." "The integration of the @Home TV Client with the EnReach TV Browser as a backend to provide web browsing capabilities illustrates the unique ability of our API-based web browser technology to integrate easily with existing set-top box software architectures and applications," stated Eric Li, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for EnReach Technology, Inc. "In addition, having EnReach TV Browser on OpenCable set-top boxes opens the door for developing a multitude of HTML- and Javascript-based set-top box applications beyond just simple web browsing." Excite@Home is demonstrating the @Home TV Client software integrated with the EnReach TV Browser at the Cable '99 show in Chicago this week, June 14-16. About EnReach Technology Founded in 1995 and based in Santa Clara, Calif., EnReach Technology is a leading supplier of Entertainment, and Internet solutions designed for TV. With over 4 million products using technologies developed by EnReach today, EnReach provides advanced applications and solutions for key consumer markets including digital television, DVD, Video CD, and Internet set-top boxes. EnReach can be found on the web at ( enreach.com ) or at 408-988-6866. SOURCE EnReach Technology, Inc. Web Site: enreach.com