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Adobe Flash Platform Adds Support for Set-top Boxes

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 20, 2009 - 11:24am.
San Francisco - Adobe Systems (NASD: ADBE) announced on Monday that the next version of its ubiquitous Flash multimedia application will support display beyond the PC and mobile phone to devices including Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, and Blu-ray players. The company said that content providers such as Comcast, Atlantic Records, Disney Interactive, Netflix and The New York Times Company will release content for the new platform. Devices supporting the technology are expected to hit the market later this year.

tags: Video | TV | Flash | Adobe Systems |

Adobe Improves Audio Support for Flash

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 15, 2008 - 12:33pm.

San Francisco - Adobe Systems (NASD: ADBE) has added better dynamic audio support to its popular Flash application, allowing developers to pass runtime generated sound samples to a computer's sound card, Wired.com reported. The company also said it will address the lingering problem of latency associated with music in Flash in the next major revision of the software.

tags: Music | Flash | Adobe Systems |

Buzz Watch: Adobe's New Hybrid Business Model For Monetizing Online Video

Authored by Jay Baage on April 9, 2008 - 5:46am.

Adobe is launching an application called the Adobe Media Player (AMP) today. It is interesting because it allows a new hybrid business model for monetizing online video. The basis is that the AMP platform is highly customizable. You can sell DRM? protected video content on the platform (like iTunes), but the AMP also supports banner advertising and all sorts of in-stream media (unlike iTunes). On the negative side, AMF doesn't allow you to transfer files to a portable device or a second computer (the DRM problem). Check out beet.tv's interview with Adobe's Laurel Reitman embedded above.
tags: Video | Marketing | Advertising | Adobe | Flash | Beet.tv | Business Models |

Microsoft Releases Silverlight Web Video Plug-in

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 5, 2007 - 1:46pm.

Redmond, Wash. - Microsoft on Wednesday officially launched Silverlight, its answer to Flash video, and said World Wrestling Entertainment, HSN and "Entertainment Tonight" will be among the first to implement the cross-platform Web browser plug-in. "Entertainment Tonight" will feature the video technology on a mini-site dedicated to its Emmy Awards coverage, while Silverlight will become the primary video player for delivering the more than 14,000 streaming video clips available on WWE.com. Microsoft also announced that it will work with Novell to deliver Silverlight support for Linux.

tags: Video | Microsoft | Flash | WWE | HSN | Silverlight | Entertainment Tonight |

Adobe Adds High-Definition Video Support to Flash Player

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 21, 2007 - 1:00pm.

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems on Tuesday introduced an update for its Flash Player 9 software -- which is used to deliver video on sites including YouTube and MySpace -- that integrates high-definition video using the H.264 codec and MPEG 4 standard.

tags: Video | HD | MySpace | Blu-ray | YouTube | Flash | HD DVD | Adobe Systems | Moviestar | H.264 | MPEG 4 |

New RealPlayer to Enable Downloading of Any Web Video

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 31, 2007 - 3:45pm.

Carlsbad, Calif. - RealNetworks announced on Thursday that the newest version of its RealPlayer will contain a feature that allows users to download any video they find online for later viewing via the RealPlayer, and even burn them to DVD and CD.

tags: Video | RealNetworks | YouTube | Flash | Copyright | RealPlayer | QuickTime | Windows Media |

Adobe Introduces Flash-based Desktop Media Player

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 16, 2007 - 12:37pm.

Las Vegas - Web and desktop publishing software developer Adobe on Monday introduced a new media player, essentially a standalone desktop version of its Flash Player browser plug-in.

tags: Video | Microsoft | Adobe | Flash | Adobe Media Player | Silverlight |

Adobe Receives Emmy Award for Flash Video Technology

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 2, 2006 - 2:26pm.
San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems said on Thursday that it has won a Technical and Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its Flash Video technology.
tags: Video | Tech | Emmys | Awards | Adobe | Macromedia | Flash | Software | Video Tech |

Flash-based Shockwave.com Mobile Games Debut on Verizon Wireless

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 25, 2006 - 1:30pm.
San Francisco - Viacom's Shockwave.com, a site that features Flash-based online games, on Wednesday announced a new series of mobile games built using Flash Lite, a Flash-based mobile media platform developed by Adobe. Access to the 30 Shockwave Minis games will be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers for $3.49 per month.
tags: Games | Mobile | Mobile Games | Verizon Wireless | Flash | Viacom | Shockwave |

Adobe to Launch Site for Sharing of Videos, Photos, Flash Content

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 15, 2006 - 11:15am.
San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems, the developer of Photoshop and distributor of Flash, this week announced details of a forthcoming media-sharing service that will allow users of its desktop publishing software to upload photos, videos and Flash-based media. Set to launch within a month, Photoshop Showcase will be free for up to 1,000 items, $3.99 per month for 5,000 items and $7.99 per month for unlimited storage.
tags: Launches | Internet | Video | Tech | Adobe | Flash | Photos |

TagWorld Launches Mini-Application "Widgets" for Blogs, Networking Sites

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 2, 2006 - 11:48am.
Santa Monica, Calif. - Social networking site TagWorld on Friday launched TagWorld Widgets, which allow users to cut and paste "mini-applications" that can deliver games, media players, news and weather data on their TagWorld personal profile pages -- in addition to pages on MySpace, Friendster, Xanga and other sites.
tags: Internet | Online Publishing | Blogs | Tech | Social Networking | TagWorld | Flash | Widgets | XML |

Adobe, Verizon Wireless Bringing Flash to Cell Phones

Authored by dmw on April 6, 2006 - 3:38pm.
San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems has announced that it partnered with Verizon Wireless to develop a version of its Flash animation software for mobile phones. The companies did not say when Verizon phones with embedded Flash technology would come to market. NTT DoCoMo and other Japanese carriers already support Flash, but Verizon is Adobe's first U.S. network partner. Pacific Crest research analyst Steve Lidberg told Reuters that Adobe's deals with U.S. carriers could result in another million developers using Flash, which in turn could generate a windfall of about $1 billion for the company.
tags: Deals | Mobile | Tech | Mobile Deals | Verizon Wireless | Investing | Tech Deals | Adobe | Macromedia | Flash |

Microsoft to Dump Hard Drive for Flash in Next Xbox

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 8, 2004 - 6:37am.
Fremont, Calif. -- M-Systems, a maker of Flash memory storage products, announced that Microsoft has contracted the company to provide Flash memory for the next edition of its Xbox video game console. Several news outlets have reported that M-Systems CEO Dov Moran says that the Flash memory will replace the hard drive in the current generation Xbox, once touted as a feature that set the Xbox apart from competing consoles. "Microsoft has taken the hard disc out of its Xbox," Moran told Israeli business website Globes Online. "At some point, when users want to save their e-mail messages, copy music, or anything like that, the only storage they'll have is what we give them." Microsoft would only say that Moran's statements are speculation.
tags: Xbox | Microsoft | Flash | Hard Drive | Dump |