BBC has open sourced its TV Application layer to enable TV application developers to create browser based TV apps. TAL is an abstraction layer that contains generally used widgets and Javascript that aid the developer to focus on providing consumption logic across many connected TVs. TAL comprises of various TV device configurations and settings that would free the developer from worrying about the specific settings that a particular TV brand demands. TAL requires community support to extend its capability and have more widgets. BBC's sports app, news app and even I believe, iPlayer uses TAL. While BBC was implementing iPlayer in its antie framework, they hit upon the idea of abstracting the application layer and coined TAL. To encourage open source participation, they have recently open sourced it. In my view, there is a good potential for TV apps and TAL provides a platform for writing common consumption layer that can wrapped by native TV SDKs without tampering logic with n
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