today announced the latest version of its near ubiquitous Web video
software, Adobe Flash Player 9. It's codenamed Moviestar, because it
includes H.264 standard video support - the same standard deployed in
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players. In other words, the
quality of video has been substantially improved from the previous
version of Flash Player 9. Also added to the mix is High Efficiency AAC
(HE-AAC) audio support and "hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced
full screen video playback".
Adobe claims that these advancements will extend their leadership
position in web video "by enabling the delivery of HD television
quality and premium audio content".
The new Flash Player will be available later today as a beta at Adobe Labs
- and the final release is slated to be available in the fall
(September - November). The last big update to Flash Player was the
launch of Flash 9 in June 2006.
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