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Comment on Adobe abandons Flash on TVs as well as mobiles by Farncombe » Adobe abandons Flash – good news for HTML-5 and HbbTV?

Farncombe » Adobe abandons Flash – good news for HTML-5 and HbbTV? — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:10:56 +0000

[...] Adobe has announced it will abandon Flash development for TV as well as for mobile. [...]

Comment on Adobe abandons Flash on TVs as well as mobiles by Farncombe » Connected TV: Adobe abandons Flash on TV

Farncombe » Connected TV: Adobe abandons Flash on TV — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:52:17 +0000

[...] TV has blogged about Adobe’s decision to abandon Flash for TV devices as well as mobile ones. [...]

Comment on IBC 2011 – Harmonic: first HEVC commercial deployments in 2014? by IBC 2011 write up on Videonet | Content Technology Operators Innovation Consulting

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:45:10 +0000

[...] I wrapped up my short Harmonic visit with a demo of live HLS on a Samsung Connected TV. The demo was as unimpressive (basically watching TV on TV) as it was significant. Industry wisdom has it that OTT services will be enabled by devices like Connected TVs and that the distribution of live TV feeds over unmanaged networks will be enabled by Adaptive Bit Rate such as HLS. Barry Flynn posted a nice write up of his chat with Thierry about the future AVC Codec that will be available in 2014. It’s on the connectedtv web site here. [...]

Comment on Intel exits connected TV to focus on STBs, smartphones and laptops by Should Internet-Connected TVs Fear Extinction? | SiliconANGLE

Should Internet-Connected TVs Fear Extinction? | SiliconANGLE — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:06:49 +0000

[...] connected TVs. It plans however to maintain its presence in the TV set-top box market. It shall divert its focus from connected TVs to STBs, smartphones and laptops after failing to gain a foothold in the market. [...]

Comment on CES Wrap: Connected TVs Offer Hope Amidst Market Gloom by Intel exits connected TV to focus on STBs, smartphones and laptops | Connected TV

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:32:57 +0000

[...] Intel’s ambitions for the connected TV market first emerged in 2007 in the shape of its ‘Canmore’ chip, later known as the CE 3100 media processor. The first iteration was demonstrated at an Intel Developers Forum in summer 2008, before becoming the enabling platform for the Yahoo Widget connected TV demos at CES 2009. [...]