Adobe, Intel and Broadcom bringing Flash and AIR to a TV, set-top box or Blu-ray player near you.

Posted by on Jan 6, 2009 in Flash Player, Industry, News | 2 comments

ospOne of my predictions for 2009 is that we’ll finally see the convergence of desktop, mobile and devices. Back in May we announced the Open Screen Project in which Adobe partners up with (currently) 20 hardware manufacturers, content providers, networks, … to bring Flash and AIR everywhere.

Yesterday, Intel announced that it has ported and optimized the Flash player for its Media Processor CE 3100. Today, Broadcom joins the party by announcing that it is also adding the Flash player to its system-on-a-chip (SoC) platform.

These new chips are built to deliver rich Web content and Flash based applications to Blu-ray players, set-top boxes or even directly to TVs and thus eliminating the set-top box.

Both partners are expected to ship the platforms as early as the first half of this year but if you happen to be in Las Vegas this week for CES, make sure you stop by their booths. Both Intel and Broadcom are demoing their new chips this week!

2 Comments

  1. John Dowdell
    January 6, 2009

    Sigma Designs joined the party too, a few hours after your post:
    http://dmnnewswire.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=620851

    Do you see any significance on the “system on a chip” approach? I’m not up to speed here yet.

    tx, jd/adobe

  2. Serge Jespers
    January 6, 2009

    This is also not really my area of expertise but I think the SoC approach makes it a lot easier for manufacturers to add these capabilities to their devices without having to port it themselves.

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