HD video now available to over 80% of internet connected PCs

Just a couple of days ago, Flash Player senior product manager Justin Everett-Church announced the updated Flash Player penetration stats. This update shows that now 81.7% (in mature markets) of internet connected PCs now have Flash Player 9.0.115. The release of that version of the Flash Player brought the Flash Player cache for Flex framework caching, hardware-scaled full screen, multi-core rendering, and H.264/AAC HD video.

If you didn’t know this, the Flash Player can easily play back a 1080p high-definition video. And the cool thing about this is, that this HD video is really a part of your Flash app like any other movieclip or asset meaning you can also do things like masking, rotating and animating it. If you wanted, you could even use it on a 3D plane with Papervision!

To be fair, Europe is a little behind on this particular version. But 78.6% is still a lot better than any other HD capable players out there!