Adobe to add Flash support to TVs and more this year

Posted Apr 26th 2009 3:10PM by Brian White
Filed under: Products and Services, Adobe Systems (ADBE)

The television, whether we like it or not, will continue to evolve into a delivery mechanism for more than just an antenna, cable connection, or satellite television. Yes, many of us have all the game consoles and even internet connections strung to those flat-screen televisions. In five years or so, that cable connection could be replaced by a WiFi antenna and your flat-panel could be a internet monitor more than anything.

Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) wants to make that happen sooner rather than later. It wants Flash -- the near-universal video and audio platform for the internet -- to become the standard on many sections of the home entertainment category. This includes televisions, DVD players, and game consoles.

Adobe's Flash Lite software would enable all these devices to become equipped with the capability to run Adobe's Flash software to enable forthcoming interactive television in a way that far outstrips what is available today from cable and satellite providers. Multiple high-definition streams overlaid on your television and multiple ways to interact with that information (weblink? purchasing? research?) would be available. If Adobe can lock up Flash as the standard in the living room just as well as it has taken control on the laptop, things are going to be rosier than ADBE's current $26 share price for many years.

Tags: ADBE, Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash video, Flash-enabled TV, Internet TV, inthenews

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4-27-2009 @ 1:07AM

Got2gab.com said...

Adobe's products are amazing and I truly think that they will make it big if they get into the field of interactive television.

Sincerely,
Aj
Co-founder of www.Got2gab.com