Gizmodo
In the video-download world already confusingly crowded by the likes of Joost, YouTube, iTunes, Windows Media Player and others, Adobe hopes to kick some ass with a new obviously Flash-based desktop player. The lightweight download will offer the ability to watch protected Flash content offline. Adobe says it will allow for a "higher" quality of video, and that the cross-platform player will be built on open standards such as RSS and SMIL. Noted is the "powerful Favorites feature," which automatically downloads new episodes of shows you say you like. (We've posted an alleged screenshot, found on Mashable, above.)
The player will be available as a free beta later this year, will full availability by year's end. However, the confusion over which player and/or service you should use to get your legal broadcasts will most likely not be cleared up by then.
Adobe unveils new Media Player [Monsters and Critics]
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HD?
looks a lot like Zune marketplace
no no no
We don't want to install more proprietary crapware on our PCs. Especially if the only purpose of that crapware is to play DRM crippled media.
no thank you.
No Thank you Adobe, I use Joost and I love it. I'm just waiting for it to get better content!
Great! I hope the new desktop player is capable of popping up flash adverts that flutter all around my Windows desktop to keep me company when I don't have a browser open. Then I can take the time to download the new Windows Desktop Flash Desktop Player Blocker to turn all that crapware off!!
Oh Flash...how I loathe thee...
From TFA:
"Adobe has created the first way for media companies to release video content, secure in the knowledge that advertising goes with it," said Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey in a Reuters report. "Control is something that media companies absolutely get high on,"
False sense of security for media companies==consumers get screwed.
There are tools that you let you save a .flv file from the 1000s of Web sites that show Flash video. Does "Adobe Media Player" only add DRM and commercials?!
periodontist,
Flash technology kicks ass and video in Flash kicks ass. Going to Apple's site today for the NAB announcements and watching buggy Quicktime in a web window that doesn't pause or advance properly reminds me how bad the WMV and QT alternatives are. Youtube would be worthless without Flash.
Abuse of Flash is a different matter. Try the Flashblock extension for Firefox.
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