Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs

Drivintin writes "In a move that should make cable companies nervous, Adobe announces they are going to push a Flash that runs directly on TVs. 'Adobe Systems, which owns the technology and sells the tools to create and distribute it, wants to extend Flash's reach even further. On Monday, Adobe's chief executive, Shantanu Narayen, will announce at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas that Adobe is extending Flash to the television screen. He expects TVs and set-top boxes that support the Flash format to start selling later this year.' With the ability to run Hulu, YouTube and others, the question of dropping your cable becomes a little bit more reasonable."

Silverlight

[Rik Sweeney]

Looks like that's another nail in Silverlight's coffin.

Linux?

[cashman73]

This isn't really that big of a deal. Wake me when there's a TV coming out that runs Linux! Even better if it were a Beowulf cluster of TVs! Imagine what that could do!!!! =)

Oh, good

[Oxy the moron]

Now I can be Rickrolled via my TV for the whole family to enjoy!

Hear's my strongly worded opinion!

[Dystopian Rebel]

I think that Flash [buffering...]

Re:Oh, good

[CFBMoo1]

The ability to Rick Roll your own family would be a feature. Especially if your kids friends are being too loud watching the TV with your child and suddenly you Rick Roll the whole group to hint at the idea that they should turn it down if they want to keep watching.

MHP

[bickerdyke]

Another proposal:

Base it on Java instead, call it MHP and let it painfully die..... again.

OTOH, the time may be right for a standard for "interactive" TV

Just what I always wanted..

[British]

..a tv with a glaring large "Press ESC to exit full screen mode". Okay, I'm willing to swing this if we make a promise to use less flash content on the web.

Re:No thank you

[smooth wombat]

My wife and I watched a live event streamed over the internet using a wireless router, a laptop, a TV, and a receiver.

Oh, is that all? I can watch a live event with just a tv and cable plugged into its back.

But I'm sure for the average person, configuring a wireless router so it recognizes their own network, which they also set up, dragging out a laptop, hooking it to their tv with the right cable and running it through a receiver is much more convenient.

It beat the hell out of watching it on just the laptop and we didn't even have to buy anything extra.

So the wireless router, cables and receiver were all free?

Re:Silverlight

[Dotren]

Remember kids: Only Microsoft monopolies are bad monopolies!

/sarcasm

Can't Wait

[residieu]

If I get to use the larger TV screen, I bet next time I can punch the monkey for sure!

Re:No thank you

[ColdWetDog]

It was just a matter of setting the laptop next to them and plugging in cables to the only holes that would fit. It was really easy, most people just don't know that.

This is definitely NOT good advice for most people.

Re:No thank you

[tygerstripes]

Rule 34. Forget it at your peril.

No thank you-Tab A:Slot B.

[Ostracus]

It was just a matter of setting the laptop next to them and plugging in cables to the only holes that would fit. It was really easy, most people just don't know that.

This is definitely NOT good advice for most people.

It works for the propagation of the species.