Flash on the TV

April 20th, 2009 by ryanstewart

I’ve been a bit off the grid which is why the blog has been a bit dusty. I’m down in New Zealand as part of Web09 and did some hiking as well as a bunch of customer visits and user group meetings so I’ve been neglecting the blog. But I wanted to make sure everyone saw the TV announcement. We’re working with a bunch of industry partners including Comcast, Intel, Netflix, The New York Times, Disney, and Broadcom to bring Flash Player to Internet enabled TVs. My favorite article was from the New York Times because of this quote:

The denizens of Hollywood and Silicon Valley have, by and large, vastly different value systems, role models, even tastes in cars, food and clothing.

But they increasingly agree on one thing: a standard for online video called Adobe Flash.

As Flash video continues to take off it means more opportunities for Flash developers. At Web09 and in a lot of the customer visits I’ve been in here in New Zealand, people want their content to be multi-screen and we want that to mean more than just mobile devices. We want you to be able to put your Flash content anywhere.

There are going to be a bunch of fun announcements coming up between NAB and FiTC, so stay tuned. There will be a lot of Flash goodness in the next couple of weeks.

Posted in Flash Player, Flash Video

One Response

  1. greg h

    Hi Ryan,

    Can you provide any substantiation for the report at the following link out of NAB last week about Adobe’s intention to discontinue the AMP content catalog?

    Adobe Gets Out of the Content Syndication Biz
    http://newteevee.com/2009/04/23/adobe-gets-out-of-the-content-syndication-biz/

    Thanks,

    g

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A blog by a Platform Evangelist at Adobe covering Adobe's RIA platform. Includes posts about Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR, ColdFusion, LiveCycle, Thermo, and everything in between.