Tuesday 21 April 2009

The Next Format War

Adobe have developed a version of Flash for the TV platform [VentureBeat].

Whilst this news is brilliant as it will hopefully mean the development of beautiful UI’s and EPGs on HDTVs, unfortunately it also heralds a format war from the inevitable competition.

Already Yahoo have their widgets on Samsung TVs, with Sony and LG coming next. [ConnectedTV]

And Microsoft are no doubt wanting Silverlight on our TVs as well.

Adobe need to sign up Panasonic, and possibly shoe-horn Sony out of the Yahoo deal.

Key company to watch – Panasonic. Whatever they sign up with will become the standard.

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