Sunday, November 13, 2011

Adobe also drops the Flash Player to TV

New strategies for Adobe Flash technology does not ultimately affect the mobile platforms but also televisions.

 We learned yesterday that the company no longer wished to develop Adobe's Flash Player for mobile operating systems.  The firm will explain further encourage developers to use its tools to embed their applications so they run natively on different OS.  Reading streaming video should then go through the technologies of HTML5.  According to the blog GigaOM, this decision also connected televisions.

 By unveiling the version 10.1 of its Flash Player Summit Adobe MAX 2009, Adobe's Open Screen Project materializes.  It aimed to provide a rich experience of the Internet for all sorts of devices, unifying the reader on all platforms (computers, smartphones, TV) and removing licensing fees.  Adobe has signed partnerships with a number of manufacturers from which we find Broadcom, Intel, STMicroelectronics, NXP Semiconductors and Sigma Designs.  In May 2010, Google joined the initiative for its Google TV.

 A spokesman for Adobe said however that, like the decisions made on mobile browsers, Flash Player will no longer be supported for TV. "We believe the best approach to deploy content on television is through applications, not through the browser," said the latter.  Adobe AIR tools will therefore be put forward for content providers wishing to offer their feeds on televisions connected.

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