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Sun announces support for Java TV API for digital interactive TV
Sun wants Java to set the standard for applications in the growing set-top and embedded markets
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Companies pushing Java TV along with Sun include Motorola, Phillips, Sony, Toshiba, HongKong Telecom, and Matsushita. Java TV, said Sun, will provide its partners with an independent software platform to access hardware features unique to televisions, such as tuner control for channel changing and on-screen graphics. Java's capacity to run across multiple platforms, added Sun, will allow television service providers to save porting costs of moving value-added services and applications to new platforms.
The end result for users, if they want it, will be enhanced television, including Video-On-Demand, Electronic Programming Guides (EPGs), and interactive multi-camera sporting events, said Sun.
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Resources
- "Microsoft targets high-end embedded devices with new NT-based OS" (SunWorld, November 1998) http://www.sunworld.com/swol-11-1998/swol-11-embedded.html
- "Sun moves embedded OS into European set-top boxes" (SunWorld, November 1998) http://www.sunworld.com/swol-11-1998/swol-11-beta.html
- Sun's Embedded Java page http://java.sun.com/products/embeddedjava
- Microsoft's embedded systems home page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsce/embedded/default.asp
- "Java finds its way into 30,000 set-top boxes from Hitachi" (JavaWorld, July 1998) http://www.javaworld.com/jw-07-1998/jw-07-hitachi.html
- "TCI breaks new ground for Java developers" (SunWorld, February 1998) http://www.sunworld.com/swol-05-1998/swol-05-sunspots.html
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