Comments on: Flash video… the future is bright? http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/ Flash Platform Geek Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:31:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Kaufman http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/comment-page-1/#comment-10455 Michael Kaufman Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:30:05 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/#comment-10455 Hi Phillip, I'm not a big msn user and didn't realize they've been serving flv for firefox for a while. While I'm not a MS loather, I find it odd and a waste of storage that this would mean they have to store two formats of video (in different bandwidths each) for every video across their sites. ps. i can't think of you without thinking about a newsletter game now :) Happy New Year! //Michael. Hi Phillip,

I’m not a big msn user and didn’t realize they’ve been serving flv for firefox for a while. While I’m not a MS loather, I find it odd and a waste of storage that this would mean they have to store two formats of video (in different bandwidths each) for every video across their sites.

ps. i can’t think of you without thinking about a newsletter game now :)

Happy New Year!

//Michael.

]]> By: Phillip Kerman http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/comment-page-1/#comment-10454 Phillip Kerman Sat, 06 Jan 2007 03:24:01 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/#comment-10454 What's amusing Michael, that it's Flash video? If you launch MSNBC.com in Firefox and then click a video you often see it in Flash. What’s amusing Michael, that it’s Flash video? If you launch MSNBC.com in Firefox and then click a video you often see it in Flash.

]]> By: Michael Kaufman http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/comment-page-1/#comment-10453 Michael Kaufman Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:32:06 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/#comment-10453 I know MS has had some Flash scattered about their site for a long time, but I found this use particularly amusing: http://soapbox.msn.com/ I know MS has had some Flash scattered about their site for a long time, but I found this use particularly amusing:

http://soapbox.msn.com/

]]> By: Phillip Kerman http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/comment-page-1/#comment-10452 Phillip Kerman Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:50:03 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/01/05/flash-video-the-future-is-bright/#comment-10452 Don't get me started... you can count on Adobe and Flash Video having some DRM "solution" soon enough. I'm glad that so far, there hasn't been some terrible implementation. So much of the motivation is misguided and makes as much sense to me as drug testing of employees. It's not like I want a crackhead flying the next airplane I board but to think that you have employees that you don't trust is a starting point that has even worse consequences than a few drug users. Anyway, it's safe to say no DRM solution works unless it's hardware based. So, one wonders exactly what the success of a half-solution. It gives content owners a false sense of security. The hardware solutions require cooperation among the soft and hardware folks... and an emerging standard. Good luck seeing that any day soon. For me, I can't even play CDs in my stereo... I rip them (all of which I own or borrow from the public library) and then play them through the killer squeezebox from slimdevices.com. Anyway, I'm not really sure I have a specific point except I'm wishing for Adobe--when they do come out with a DRM solution--to please not mess it up. All you need is one good backfire for the whole thing to really hurt Flash. Don’t get me started… you can count on Adobe and Flash Video having some DRM “solution” soon enough. I’m glad that so far, there hasn’t been some terrible implementation. So much of the motivation is misguided and makes as much sense to me as drug testing of employees. It’s not like I want a crackhead flying the next airplane I board but to think that you have employees that you don’t trust is a starting point that has even worse consequences than a few drug users.

Anyway, it’s safe to say no DRM solution works unless it’s hardware based. So, one wonders exactly what the success of a half-solution. It gives content owners a false sense of security. The hardware solutions require cooperation among the soft and hardware folks… and an emerging standard. Good luck seeing that any day soon.

For me, I can’t even play CDs in my stereo… I rip them (all of which I own or borrow from the public library) and then play them through the killer squeezebox from slimdevices.com.

Anyway, I’m not really sure I have a specific point except I’m wishing for Adobe–when they do come out with a DRM solution–to please not mess it up. All you need is one good backfire for the whole thing to really hurt Flash.

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