MediaBytes - Wednesday April 9, 2008 - 2 Comments
2008 04-09 MediaBytes: Adobe Media Player - Flickr - Disney 3D - Kevin Martin - YouTube
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ADOBE launched Adobe Media Player 1.0 and Adobe TV. The media player offers content from CBS, MTV, Universal Music Group, PBS, Scripps and CondeNet. It allows Flash downloads and content subscriptions in 1080p, 720p or 480i. Adobe TV is a network in the player with programming related to Adobe products. With Flash on almost every computer and Adobe bundling this software with Flash updates, Adobe Media Player should end up on a computer near you.
FLICKR has added support for video. The popular photo-sharing site will now allow paying “pro” users to post videos up to 90 seconds in length and 150 MB in size. With those limitations, the site is not really aiming to compete with the major players in the online television space. Rather, Yahoo’s Flickr is sticking to its roots, encouraging “video snapshots” that play a similar function as photographs.
DISNEY will release all PIXAR films in 3-D starting next year. The move will help differentiate the theater experience from the large HD screens filling living rooms at a rapid pace. Only around 700 theaters currently have the technology required to exhibit films in 3-D. However, Disney’s strong support of the format increases the chance that theater-owners will upgrade to draw people out of their HD-equipped homes.
THE NTIA will relax rules related to converter box coupon redemption. Citizens residing in assisted-living and nursing homes will now be eligible for the coupons. This erases a major complaint against the program and will make it easier for many elderly television viewers (who are more likely to own an analog TV set) to make the switch to digital. The program will also now accept P.O. Boxes as qualified addresses capable of receiving coupons.
KEVIN MARTIN agreed to relax the dual carriage mandate that required all cable systems to carry stations in both analog and digital starting next February. The changes apply to operators with bandwidth of 552 MHz or less. Analog-only systems will be allowed to provide only analog support for must-carry stations. Digital providers can provide must-carry signals in analog if their digital set-top boxes will receive them. Martin is also circulating a proposal that would allow smaller cable operators to down-convert must-carry HDTV signals into standard definition.
YOUTUBE is now being blocked by four Indonesian Internet service providers for hosting a user-submitted video that accuses the Koran of inciting violence.
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2 Responses to “2008 04-09 MediaBytes: Adobe Media Player - Flickr - Disney 3D - Kevin Martin - YouTube”Kresh April 9th, 2008 9:24 am
My only complaint is that Adobe acts like a virus. I did not have
Adobe Air installed and when I installed AMP so Air had to be
installed as well. After playing with AMP, and not being able to
get any of the CSI stuff to play, I uninstalled AMP. There was no
provision to uninstall Air. I went to the Adobe website and looked
through their LiveDocs and they direct you to run the uninstaller
located in my /Applications folder. As you can imagine, it is not
there. I download the Air installer hoping to install AIR again
along with the uninstaller, but it says my version is up to date
and quits. Adobe does not provide a link to download the
uninstaller. So what makes Adobe different from any other virus
that I might pick-up. It it is hidden on my system, I can’t
uninstall it, and I don’t know what it is doing in the back ground.
Thankfully I have Little Snitch and have denied Air access to the
Internet. I am through with Adobe and I hope it does not make it to
my iPhone or my iPod Touch.
Kresh April 9th, 2008 9:57 am
Adobe has responded to me and told me that their LiveDocs
information was wrong, and since I have posted this comment on the
first fifty news items I could find on Google, I think I should
follow up with the information they sent me: “Sorry for the
trouble. Please note that Adobe Media Player is an application
built on AIR, so AIR is required to install and use AMP. The
uninstaller is actually located in the /Application/Utilities
folder.”