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Adobe Decides to Make a Media Player

Submitted by on April 16, 2007 – 4:06 pm3 Comments

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Not exactly sure what to think about this one, but it seems that Adobe had decided that the media player market is the best way for it to expand its video business. The player will be optimized to play Flash video at higher resolutions than the stand alone version, and will use DRM to protect high quality streams.

Two forms of content will be on the player. One will be free that will most likely be ad supported, while the second channel will consist of paid content that will be central to the users account.

I just find it amusing that Adobe wants to get into the already crowded media player market. You already have the two powerhouses, iTunes and Windows Media Player and then there are hundreds of other smaller players out there as well. It just does not seem like a wise business decision, unless they are looking at it as a way to get more Flash Content Server licenses sold.

News via tgdaily.com

  • Kimberly

    IU’m not surprised that Adobe is getting into this space. I’ve heard that they feel YouTube could have been their success. I mean, the site is based on their video format — why couldn’t they have created it?

    I don’t see any downside to this. I mean, the more the merrier. The Internet TV space is going to grow exponentially over the next few years, and it will benefit us by increasing competition.

    These new “over the top” video services) to quote Shelly Palmer) is going to turn the heat up on Cable TV, to increase services, or just all-around improve.

    Where’s the downside in that?

    Kimberly

  • http://www.farbot.com/ Paul Munn

    How quickly it is forgotten that the two web media player powerhouses are/were RealPlayer and Microsoft Windows Media Player. Now it’s iTunes by sheer force of installs on end user machines.

    If RealPlayer was actually easier to install and didn’t gum up your machine with heaps of garbage you didn’t want, people would actually use it.

  • Joe (Aeropause)

    I purposely left Real Player out of that equation, because their star has faded for one thing and the fact that they tried to take control of all your media needs regardless of whether you told Real Player not to. Also, there was the whole, “Sorry, we were tracking all of your media player usage” thing.