Silverlight is a joke it still uses wmv as a format try keeping your IDM on while browing silverlight content it will pck up the wmv formated link directly
Stupid microsoft just wanna compete evrywhere

Adobe just leave alright
and yes ur bulky adobe reader is crap as well foxit rules

what format does that site use? its not flash?

and who doesn’t think that flash video looks always looks like crap on youtube and google video?

for people dissing Microsoft, their wmv videos look a hell of a lot better than this flash crap.

Neither of those deliver any type of quality of video and it’s just recently flash even started supporting full screen video. It’s even just now (in the two last betas of Flash Player) that it’s supported hardware acceleration of video. It’s not even very good acceleration, only works in fullscreen and works horribly on youtube quality video. (just open a video from YouTube in VLC and you see what it should have been like)

Flash is not a good product. It’s actually the one thing that has hurt the internet the most if you look at the big picture. It’s dominance has completely killed off every single alternative over the years. I’m happy to see that at least the DivX player gets some traction with sites like Stage6, since it’s a helluva lot better than Flash junk in terms of quality and how the plugin is built.

I’ve not tried the player that this article is about… but having one company with the marketshare that Flash has is never good. Especially when that company has horrible support for various platforms and takes years and years to give us features we all want (like fullscreen and HW acceleration for video).

Every single big company doesn’t see you as a person anymore. When they look at their users they see only $$$$$$, not human beens. So fuck their media player and all their softwares, fuck them all.

but the average PC user does not chose its media player. And that is why WMP is so “popular”, because it was pre-installed, not because it is better than other players…

If Adobe promotes this new player , and includes it with, let’s say, Adobe Reader… this could easily eat Real & Quicktime on PC.

oh and just because you don’t like windows media player doesn’t mean it sucks, i’ve tried a lot of players but i still prefer wmp11 (though u have a point in the DRM)

useless? Remember, this is the same company that made youtube, google video, and streaming video for large files possible in the first place.

I can’t believe you seem to be implying Microsoft is the most “useful.” Funny you should even mention Silverlight, it’s a disaster. Windows Media is the #1 pusher of DRM, which seems contrary to the entire basis of the scene.

If MS has the marketshare with realplayer and wmplayer, that’s a shame – because those are the two worst media players anyone could name. Realplayer gained popularity due to their outstanding compression, but horrible quality.

Flash is the new streaming video, and I highly doubt Adobe will take on a new product, and abandon as quickly as Microsoft has always done (IE for mac anyone?)

RealPlayer on the other hand needs to die already, what a useless and annoying format.

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