A common topic I cover on my blog is what the Set top box of the future is likely to be. Recently in my post named “Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.”, Philip and I covered many aspects of this idea. Recently a number of developments connected to this topic have surfaced. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Adobe'
The tend towards an open STB continues.
June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · Film Making · IPTV · Microsoft · Sony · Standards
Adobe Flash Player, a bad internet citizen.
June 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Lately I have been doing a lot of Flex and Flash development. This has led me to discover, through issues with my projects, two major BUGS in flash player 9.0.124 (Current version). With the recent release of FlashPlayer 10 beta, I was expecting these bugs to have been addressed. Unfortunatly not.
Through sheer [...]
Adobe, the Apple killer.
May 17th, 2008 · No Comments
If you follow my blog, you will notice that I take a lot of effort in looking at Adobe and what they are doing with their flash technology. To help position this post, let me first refer to previous posts in reverse chronological order:
Flash DRM, a disappointing implementation: where I discuss pitfalls in Adobe’s plans, [...]
Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · IPTV · P2P · flash
Flash DRM, a disappointing implementation.
March 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Recently Adobe released “Flash Media Rights Management Server“. More details have come to light, and unfortunately it is not good.
Follow this link for a good overview of the latest development in the Flash DRM.
Unfortunately Adobe appears to have lost the plot here. The details regarding FMRMS are a strange departure from what appeared to be [...]
Tags: Adobe · DRM · IPTV · flash · flex
Where is the digital media ignition point?
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments
If you have not noticed, my blog mainly covers technological issues to do with the adoption or digital media. As such, I talk to a lot of people regarding their business models for expanding digital media. One strange, trend that has appeared is that many companies developing digital media strategies are, by admition, [...]