Flashy TV

Flash on the tube is a very big deal. The container for nearly all internet media, Flash offers the greatest technical potential in terms of transforming the versatility of the set-top box.

Of course KickApps has the most spectacular drag-and-drop application for building nearly any kind of Flash container (no actionscript skill required, thank you very much), so these developments are nothing but good from my perspective.

clipped from www.multichannel.com Broadcom To Pack Adobe’s Flash Into TV Chips Joint Development Will Bring Web Media Player To Digital TVs, Set-Top Boxes By Todd Spangler — Multichannel News, 1/6/2009 2:35:00 PM In another pact aimed at bringing Web-based video to TVs, Broadcom and Adobe Systems announced Tuesday that they will work together to integrate Adobe’s Flash multimedia platform into Broadcom’s latest digital television and set-top box system-on-a-chip platforms.