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you say Beta I say VHS, you say HD-DVD I say BlueRay

Interesting news  albeit somewhat off topic.  I was too young to live through the beta/vhs wars and really appreciate as a technologist what was occurring, but given I only recently sold my semi=pro Sony Beta SP player I understood the difference in quality ...

Might we be seeing a similar story play out, with HD-DVD regaining ground against BlueRay due to higher device costs?

Which leads to my original thought, I wonder what the OEM / Device markets reaction of Flash having H.264 support, could it lead to more embedded Flash runtimes for set top boxes, DVD / hard disk recorders ? not sure but it's sure exciting to think about it.

Flash H.264 it's about workflow and tools

Don't take my views the wrong way I think today's announcement by Adobe adding H.264 support to the Flash Player is awesome news, period.

But long term I don't think it's going to matter, in my view the codecs overtime will become a commodity, at some point I'm sure Microsoft will give way to the content owners and implement H.264 support in the Windows platform stack as suggested here

What will matter is the workflow and tools for producing video, and in my opinion as an employee and shareholder of Adobe that's where ultimately we have to be successful.  Having a complete story from capturing the raw footage, producing the video, encoding to the various platforms/channels content owners need to support and the final step of digital delivery be it web, dvd or other digtial formats Adobe has a great story today with CS3 and today it just gets better.  As one of our senior executives mentioned in his recent blog post "Time is Money" 

I think it's the most marketing oriented post I've ever produced while working for Adobe, but I'm quite passionate about this space and it's great to see Adobe delivering on the potential it's had since acquiring Macromedia.

kudos to all that made this happen

Adobe changes the digital video game

In what I believe to be a game changing move for the web video industry, Adobe today announced their plans to support H264 video in Flash Player 9 Update 3 which is expected to ship this Fall.

The implications of this could mean a shift for the whole industry in getting behind a single standard which can only be a good thing for content owners, producers and software developers.

I look forward to watching this play out from the sidelines

CFCAMP Australia

Coming to a city near you soon, CFCAMP is a FREE mini conference for ColdFusion Developers by ColdFusion Developers.

See the WIKI for more information ... both Andrew Spaulding AKA FlexDaddy and myself will be speaking, looking forward to seeing what other folks might step up and talk about ...

Flex developers needed in Australia

What with the news of Cynergy Systems setting up an office in Sydney, people send me Flex job openings  on a regular basis and at last weeks ColdFusion user group all the Flex skilled folks telling me they are turning down Flex work on a regular basis, we have a problem on our hands, but it's a nice problem to have ...

We need more Flex developers in the Australian market ... so what are you waiting for, jump on board and get skilled up in Flex you won't regret it!