The plan is to get
Flash from every computer to every television screen, and
Adobe's ready to take the next step this week at the
National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas. Broadcom, Comcast, STMicroelectronics, NXP Semiconductors, and
Sigma Designs join Intel as set-top box makers with chipsets ready to stream widgets and HD video to connected televisions, while content is on the way from Netflix, New York Times, Disney and Atlantic Records. Of course,
Yahoo's widgets and Microsoft
Silverlight aim to turn up the interactivity and streaming video to TVs and handhelds as well, though Adobe seems content to share with Yahoo! if need be -- Vizio's
Connected HDTV demo and Intel's
CE 3100 support both -- expect the blades to come out when Flash enabled hardware comes to market in the second half of this year.
[Via
Venture Beat]
posted Apr 20th 2009 at 9:03AM 
