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24 May 2010
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Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Manufacturer: Adobe
Size: 2.4MB
Number of Downloads: 8873
Price: Free
Whether you’re streaming or downloading videos or TV programmes, it’s essential for you to be able to manage and watch your media files effectively. Spending time downloading a film then finding it’s only viewable in a certain resolution, or extremely slow streaming speeds are not uncommon in the world of online TV. Despite fast broadband, the holdup may be the remote server, or your ISP, not your connection.
This is the debut media player from Adobe, based on Flash technology. This is media playback software that rivals both Apple’s Quicktime and Windows Media Player but also an array of online video content, from well known TV programmes to the latest music videos. Online content will be available for streaming or download, and can be viewed both on and offline. Users can subscribe to their favourite shows, and will be reminded when new episodes are made available.
One downside to Adobe’s player is that it will be an advert supported service, which will provide advertiser’s with another way of reaching a target audience. This will enable them to place adverts with specific relevance during certain programmes.
However, Adobe can boast an impressive number of content partners such as MTV and Universal Music, alongside an ever increasing list of newcomers, so it’s unlikely you’ll get bored trying to find something to watch or playback using this media player.
Note that a Mac OS X version is also available. The download link here will bring you to the site where you can download the media player.
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Do you agree?
Wont Allow me to sign up
I put my info in and try to click on begin and nothing happens at all
Posted by: Timothy Corl 11 Dec 2008
correct "add" to "ad"
correct "add" to "ad"
Posted by: jason 10 Apr 2008
resource hog
Takes up more resources than any of my current apps. Using Mac Leopard.
Posted by: jeff bogan 10 Apr 2008
Great...
Just what I need - ANOTHER media player.
Posted by: Rich 10 Apr 2008
no linux version
since this software is not available for linux, it is useless for me.
Posted by: Jim 10 Apr 2008
Another media player?
When over 90% of computers in this world have windows operating system+ windows media player and majority online TV streaming on server side done in windows format why do we need Adobe's AD supported media player. I think this not a step forward its backward.
Posted by: jharag 10 Apr 2008
What?
"One downside to Adobe?s player is that it will be an add supported service," Add? Time to go back to school. When you say it rivals other media players please cite specific examples to support this.
Posted by: reader 10 Apr 2008
Add
Shouldn't it be Ad not Add?
Posted by: max 10 Apr 2008
Editing
Now I can understand the writer that is what the editor is for so on that note who is in charge of editing. My 5 year old could do a better job.
Posted by: Mad Rapper 10 Apr 2008
proof-reading needed
There are many grammatical errors in this short article. Perhaps this was translated from another language.
Posted by: sprinkles 10 Apr 2008
VLC is still a better media player without the ads.
VLC is a free, cross-platform video player for Windows, OS-X, BSD, and Linux. It streams and plays more video formats than Quicktime, Windows Media Player, or Adobe's offering - and it's free of advertising.
Posted by: rhoadie 10 Apr 2008