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Adobe brings Flash platform to TV and set top boxes
But HDTV and broadband internet are blurring the lines between web video and television. And Adobe wants to help bring the walls down by pushing Flash for TV and set top boxes including Blu-Ray players and cable boxes. Adobe has already partnered with companies including Intel, Broadcom, Comcast, Netflix, and Disney on the project.
In other words, you can imagine a future where you turn on your TV and in addition to video, on-demand programming, and a program guide, you can pull up weather, news, and other information provided through an internet connection, as well as quick and easy access to web video from any site like ABC.com or Netflix that makes content available for the platform.
Of course, if this all happens, it means you're going to need to get a new TV, set top box, or other hardware in order to enable the new features. Or you can just stick an old computer next to your TV and use Flash the old fashioned way.
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Nic said 11:46AM on 4-20-2009
I wouldn't have anything against Silverlight if it would actually run on Linux. How can it run on a Mac (Unix), but Microsoft can't make it run on Linux?
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Brad Linder said 11:43AM on 4-20-2009
There's actually an open source version of silverlight called moonlight that runs on Linux. It's a bit behind the development curve, but it should handle some Silverlight content:
http://mono-project.com/Moonlight
sachin said 12:30PM on 4-20-2009
great adobe is really doing nice stuff guys
Sachin
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cast87 said 12:31PM on 4-20-2009
Flash is powerful when you need to have multimedia content when there's low bandwith, but a set-top box is conceived to stream online movies; bandwith shouldn't be an issue. So, what's the advantage of this?
Advertising? The latest set-top boxes like popcorn hour or blobbox didn't incorporate flash, maybe because it's too heavy?
cast87
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Martin-T said 1:50PM on 4-20-2009
Advertising? Exactly. They'll prevent you from fast forwarding through the ads too. Next we'll need flash blockers for our HDTV.
cast87 said 8:12AM on 4-21-2009
You are right!!
I've found this demonstration video... maybe it's for publishers, not for us... ;o)
http://tr.im/hYSj (blobbox)
Maybe they integrated flash and I was wrong about it?