NetFront™ Browser HbbTV Solutions

Market-Leading HbbTV Software Solutions

ACCESS provides the most advanced and versatile HTML5 browser portfolio available from any commercial browser vendor. Delivered as embedded Software Development Kits (SDKs) for smart TVs, set-top boxes and other IP-connected devices, ACCESS’ NetFront™ Browser solutions are widely recognized worldwide as one of the leading browsers in the connected TV and game console markets.

As the key module in a complete HbbTV package, the NetFront Browser solutions present and HbbTV applications to consumers.  An HbbTV application is an associated collection of documents (typically JavaScript™, CSS and HTML) blended with the content from the broadcast DSM-CC Object Carousel to provide the consumer with the interactive services they now come to expect.

ACCESS’ solutions provide a true choice of the Chromium or WebKit HTML5 engines for support of HbbTV standards. Solutions are available for both HbbTV 1.5 and HbbTV 2.0.1. Regional or country specific standards such as Freeview Play 2017 in the UK, which is based on HbbTV 2.0.1 are also supported.

Extended support for reduced code size and run-time memory footprint, custom media players, JavaScript extensions and enhanced security mean that the NetFront Browser family is the best choice for HbbTV and HTML 5 platforms.

Core Feature Highlights

• HbbTV 1.5 and HbbTV 2.0.1
• UK Freeview Play 2017
• Optimised integrations with Chromium or WebKit engines
• Embedded SDKs, ready for middleware integration
• Hardware acceleration (GPU) support
• Enhanced by ACCESS technology deployed in over 1.5 billion units
• JavaScript JIT* for improved performance
• Browser plugins support
• jQuery
• WebGL
• CORS
• HTML5 (Audio/Video tags, Canvas, Forms, Web Workers, Web Storage, Application Cache, etc.)
• CSS3 (Opacity, CSS3 3D Transforms, Animations, Transitions, Media Queries and Selectors, etc.)