Flash Goes High-Def

A few days ago, Adobe announced that they were going to release a new version of Flash that has H.264 support, which essentially means that Flash can now play videos (and games) that have the same quality as HD-DVD’s and Blu-Ray discs. I can see Youtube becoming a site that you have to wait for 20 minutes to watch a 30 second video in super quality, although we can hope that it downloads faster than that. Also announced in the new version is higher-quality sound and the ability to use multicore processors for better fullscreen video support. What this all means is that people (still) using Windows 98 are going to have an even harder time browsing the internet and using Flash. You can use the beta version of Flash that I just wrote about here.

I think that this is a good step for the internet in general. This will give people another reason to upgrade to better computers (if they have been looking for reasons to do so), and will allow movie makers to interact with viewers in better ways than before. This is the first major update for Flash since June 2006, so it’s time for that needed update in the online movie world.

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