Opera SDK 4.0 introduced on the engine Chromium / Blink for televisions and digital TV receivers

The company Opera Software introduced at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) first commercial software development kit SDK 4.0 for TV and digital TV receivers, based on the engine Chromium / Blink. Using Chromium / Blink, with the words of the developers, will provide unmatched performance hardware acceleration and JavaScript , which will meet the requirements of popular web services, high-performance multi-core chipsets and architectures. Presented by Opera SDK features a new, easier-integrated API, and also multi-threaded and multi-process architecture.

The new SDK supports video in HTML5 and CE-HTML and can be used to deliver premium content services such as YouTube Leanback, Spotify and BBC iPlayer . In addition, this SDK can also be implemented in the Opera TV Store - a platform for applications based on HTML5, implemented in the device Smart TV. Taking into account the widespread low-end models of devices Smart TV, Opera developers have improved memory management SDK and added support for DirectFB.

To date, solutions Opera embedded in tens of millions of devices more than 50 manufacturers, including Sony, Samsung, TiVo, Philips , TCL, Sharp, Loewe, Boxee, Freesat +, Vestel and Altech.