Adobe Fires Up Adobe TV, Media Player [Updated]
Adobe Fires Up Adobe TV, Media Player [Updated]
by , 8:35 AM EDT, April 9th, 2008
Adobe flipped on Adobe TV, the company's online video service, on Wednesday. The channel is part of the company's Adobe Media Player service and offers free Creative Suite 3-related training content from industry experts.
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Adobe Media Player also offers programming from several networks including CBS, MTV, Universal Music Group, and PBS. Shows from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Blip.tv, MyToons.com, ON Networks, Epicurious, KQED, and Style.com are all available.
Viewers can watch shows in their Web browser, or with the new Adobe Media Player 1.0 application. The player is an Adobe AIR-based application that lets viewers browse, search and play shows at Adobe TV. It also lets users tag their favorite programs, add their personal videos for playback, and more.
Adobe TV content is free to watch and is available at the Adobe TV Web site as well as through Adobe Media Player.
[Updated with additional Adobe TV information.]
Observer Comments
My only complaint is that Adobe acts like a virus.
I did not have Adobe Air installed and when I installed AMP so Air had to be installed as well.
After playing with AMP, and not being able to get any of the CSI stuff to play, I uninstalled AMP. There was no provision to uninstall Air.
I went to the Adobe website and looked through their LiveDocs and they direct you to run the uninstaller located in my /Applications folder. As you can imagine, it is not there.
I download the Air installer hoping to install AIR again along with the uninstaller, but it says my version is up to date and quits.
Adobe does not provide a link to download the uninstaller.
So what makes Adobe different from any other virus that I might pick-up. It it is hidden on my system, I can't uninstall it, and I don't know what it is doing in the back ground. Thankfully I have Little Snitch and have denied Air access to the Internet.
I am through with Adobe and I hope it does not make it to my iPhone or my iPod Touch.
Adobe has responded to me and told me that their LiveDocs information was wrong, and since I have posted this comment on the first fifty news items I could find on Google, I think I should follow up with the information they sent me:
"Sorry for the trouble. Please note that Adobe Media Player is an
application built on AIR, so AIR is required to install and use AMP.
The uninstaller is actually located in the /Application/Utilities
folder."
The farther along we get with internet tv, the more it resembles traditional tv. What's the point? And honestly, how many different proprietary (I'm talking to you, Adobe) ways do we need to have to watch the same content? I almost feel like the golden age of the internet is over-networks calling shots, ISPs limiting bandwidth, etc., etc.; it has finally been co-opted and overrun by the corporate vultures. Sad.
Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:07 pm Subject: PowerPC software optimization
I'm not getting smooth animation with Adobe Media Player on my Dual 1.25 GHz G4 desktop with an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card with 256 MBs of DDR video memory.
I have found in the past that most companies that launch a new Universal Binary App tend to optimize it for the Intel processors first then refine their software optimization for the PowerPC as time goes on.
Apple's iTunes Movies play fine on any G4 Mac that is over 1 GHz in processor speed.
on the system requirement, adobe wrote that G5 is minimum power to run AMP. when i ignored the guide and installed it. my mac is sluggish as my other run vista. the user interface is nicer than Miro but it was CPU and Ram killer, activity monitor showed that 100% user activity. i shut down everything but Mac was lagged. the content is very poor iff you are living outside the IP right of the content publishers. i gave AMP 2 stars/5 for trying but i will stick with Miro.
on the system requirement, adobe wrote that G5 is minimum power to run AMP. when i ignored the guide and installed it. my mac is sluggish as my other run vista. the user interface is nicer than Miro but it was CPU and Ram killer, activity monitor showed that 100% user activity. i shut down everything but Mac was lagged. the content is very poor iff you are living outside the IP right of the content publishers. i gave AMP 2 stars/5 for trying but i will stick with Miro.
on the system requirement, adobe wrote that G5 is minimum power to run AMP. when i ignored the guide and installed it. my mac is sluggish as my other run vista. the user interface is nicer than Miro but it was CPU and Ram killer, activity monitor showed that 100% user activity. i shut down everything but Mac was lagged. the content is very poor iff you are living outside the IP right of the content publishers. i gave AMP 2 stars/5 for trying but i will stick with Miro.
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