Adobe is beginning to fire more often on the web media front. Most interesting is the new media player. Its really oriented towards movies – but even there the restriction is that that the movies must be one of the following:
.FLV – Flash Video
.F4V – MPEG Flash Video
.MP4 – MP4 Movie
.MP4V – MP4 Video
.M4V – MPEG-4 Video
.3GP – 3GP Movie
.3GPP2 – 3GP Video
.MOV – Quicktime movie
Notably missing from this list is any Microsoft or Real Networks video files. This is really obnoxious. But what is interesting and can be seen from the screen shot is that Adobe has managed to get some major players including CBS, MTV, Universal Music, PBS, and 40 others. Not too shabby right out of the gate.
The other interesting aspect is that the AMP=Adobe Media Player is an Adobe AIR application. So any body that downloads AMP will also be armed with AIR. This may be in response to Microsoft getting the Olympic Games. Anybody who downloads a movie or video coverage of the Olympics in Beijing will also get the Microsoft Silverlight player downloaded to their machine.
Finally, this is an example of Adobe eating its own dog food. They developed in AIR which Adobe is trying to promote as the universal RIA=Rich Interface Application generation tool. It seems pretty solid and quick. I downloaded some pretty large files on DSL with no pauses in transmission I encourage readers to try it because the response time and configuration will become much more prevalent in the next years or so.
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