Adobe Launches “Moviestar” Version of Flash Player – HD Television Quality for Web Video
Adobe Launches “Moviestar” Version of Flash Player – HD Television Quality for Web Video: nevermind the fact that this article I’m linking to has as much analysis as a press release. Here’s the interesting thing here: Flash Lite 3. Delayed. Consequence? Chumby, iPhone, etc – devices that depend on it, have rudimentary or no Flash support. iPhone and AppleTV consequently are relying on h.264 transcoded Flash videos from YouTube for their on-demand video content. So what does H.264 support in Flash mean? It means that Flash Lite 3, Apple iPhones (and other devices that’ll use FL3) as well as further embedded devices will have high quality, pixel-perfect resolution videos using a good, open codec. It also means YouTube might just make that transition to screen (via AppleTV and the like) sooner than you think. The chess pieces are there (handheld and set top computers reliant on H.264 as a prosaic stop-gap), and this is one of the final pieces of the puzzle. If I was Microsoft I’d be shitting myself about now.
Adobe has not stated that Flash Lite 3 is delayed. The release is on track and on schedule. We released Flash Lite 3 to worldwide partners in May and expect first handsets to hit the market by the end of the year.