Should you be one of those (sensible) people who don’t make use of program until all a Greek letters have been removed from the name, we’ve got a little happy news for you. Adobe’s Flash Player 10.2 has only exited beta contrast as well as is right away available for download to Windows, Mac and Linux computers. Its biggest brand new underline is a Stage Video API, that promises to drastically revoke a processor bucket of personification behind high-res video. It’ll need to be enabled by content-providing sites like YouTube, Vimeo and Brightcove — all of whom have been already upon the job — though once that’s finished, Adobe says 1080p playback will cost you no some-more than 15 percent of your CPU cycles. Other new additions embody a single-monitor full screen choice for multi-display rigs, permitting you to max out the Flash video upon one panel while gripping a others free, IE9 hardware increase in speed await, and some nifty sub-pixel text rendering enhancements to have the web lives marginally nicer to look during. Hit a source to get your download upon.
Show full PR textFlash Player 10.2 is Here: Available Now for Windows, Mac, as well as Linux

Today, we’re rising Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We’re especially vehement which this release introduces Stage Video, a full hardware accelerated video tube for best-in-class, beautiful video opposite platforms and browsers. Additionally, this chronicle of Flash Player offers all the new capabilities previewed in our beta recover, similar to law local rodent cursors, multiple monitor full-screen await, Internet Explorer 9 hardware took off digest support, as well as extended sub-pixel digest for higher content readability.

In The City That Knows How, A History of Moving Images

Here in San Francisco, we’ve had the bit of tradition around becoming different how folks see the universe with images. In a 1870s, the San Francisco photographer named Eadweard Muybridge prisoner some of a beginning motion pictures. In 1927, Philo Farnsworth transmitted the first electronic radio picture in his laboratory on 202 Green Street.

And approach behind in 2002, the tiny group in San Francisco introduced video in Flash Player, bringing seamless video to 9 in 10 continuous computers – allowing video to turn an constituent part of a web. Three years ago, which group introduced H.264 video to over 93 percent of users, bringing immersive tall peculiarity video to some-more people than ever. Flash Player has helped emanate the pleasing web which moves as well as connects. Flash Player 10.2 continues that convention by introducing Stage Video: smoother, some-more fit, more pleasing HD video for a web.

Bringing Beautiful Video to the Stage

Stage Video lets websites take advantage of full hardware increase in speed of a entire video tube. This builds upon the H.264 hardware took off decoding in Flash Player 10.1. Stage Video hardware increase in speed equates to which Flash Player can play even aloft extravagant video whilst regulating dramatically reduction processing energy, giving users a better experience, larger performance, as well as longer battery life. In the contrast opposite upheld systems, we’ve found it’s up to 34 times some-more efficient.

Put another way, Flash Player regulating Stage Video can facilely play pleasing 1080p HD video with just 1-15% CPU use upon the common Mac or Windows computer* – working opposite platforms and browsers, it will capacitate the best video knowledge for the most people. Many millions of additional PCs, from netbooks to desktops, can right away become sharp HD home theaters on the web.

Note which Stage Video opening gains might not be manifest right divided. Websites as well as calm providers will first need to update their video players prior to users knowledge Stage Video playback with Flash Player 10.2 upon their sites. For developers, this typically equates to updating the SWF player file. However, no changes are needed to existent video libraries or infrastructure, and websites just continue to leverage Flash Player benefits together with unmatched reach, advanced streaming capabilities, DVR-like playback carry out, abounding interactivity, calm insurance, as well as coherence. Since acceptance of new Flash Player releases is accelerating, websites can design that many of the over 1 billion people with Flash Player will be ready to good from Stage Video in Flash Player 10.2 soon.

Companies like Vimeo, Brightcove, Epix, as well as YouTube have already proposed work to enable await for Stage Video to broach extraordinary video playback practice. You’ll be seeing them capacitate Stage Video opening in a near prospect. And you can try examples of Stage Video currently after upgrading to Flash Player 10.2. Tens of thousands of sites will be enabled by a Brightcove player, as well as Jeff Whatcott at Brightcove explains, “Brightcove is continually innovating to broach great video experiences. We have been blown away by a performance as well as efficiency of Stage Video as well as we have been truly excited to be operative so closely with Adobe to move this breakthrough technology to clientele.” And Ryan Hefner during Vimeo records, “Since Vimeo’s users upload the lot of high-definition calm, being which HD is a default quality for videos noticed on our site, a decision to take advantage of Stage Video in Flash Player 10.2 was the no brainer. We love to keep up upon the ultimate technologies, and if those technologies also raise the user knowledge for our users afterwards it’s the win-win.” Folks that wish to deliver beautiful, smooth HD video to more people than ever have reason to be excited, and some-more as well as more sites will capacitate Stage Video in the entrance months.

Additional New Capabilities in Flash Player 10.2

Along with the new Stage Video design, we’re adding features in Flash Player 10.2 to enable even more polished practice.

* Video during the most appropriate is immersive, so Flash Player allows you burst to loyal full shade playback with one click. With multiple monitor full screen await in Flash Player 10.2, you can right away simply watch your favorite videos in true full shade on a single monitor while you multitask upon an additional and get a little work finished (or not).
* Added support for law local rodent cursors lets designers as well as developers emanate their own static or charcterised cursors with silky smooth responsiveness, enabling richer diversion and application interfaces.
* New sub-pixel content digest enhancements leverage Adobe typography research to further enhance text readability, generally for complex character-based languages.
* Support is included for a GPU digest record in Microsoft’s arriving Internet Explorer 9 browser.

Today as well as a Future

You can implement Flash Player 10.2 currently. We inspire everybody, developers as well as users, to try it out and let us know what you consider. And cling to parsimonious for exciting mobile updates. We’ll be providing some-more report about the next Flash Platform runtimes – Flash Player as well as AIR – on phone as well as inscription devices at Mobile World Congress next week. We’re thrilled about today’s launch, and we hope you enjoy it.

Tom Nguyen
Product Manager, Flash Platform Runtimes

* For example, using Flash Player 10.2 with Stage Video hardware acceleration, we’ve tested the Mac Mini expelled dual years ago and the low-powered GPU-enabled Windows netbook personification well-spoken full HD 1080p video regulating less than 8% of a CPU; some-more absolute computers make use of even reduction.

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Can’t say which Patrick Lo is the name which right away rang any bells around here. He’s positively not as tangible as Netgear, the company which he chairs as well as rules supreme. But child did he hit the radio detector screens this sunrise. Lo had plenty of critique to widespread around a Microsoft and Apple camps today during a press lunch in Sydney. Oh where to even begin? Let’s start with Microsoft, as well as Lo’s explain that, “Microsoft is over — diversion over, from my point of perspective,” when comparing Windows Phone 7′s chance to contest with Android as well as the iPhone. Doubtful, not with Redmond’s Windows 7 and MS Office cash cows fueling Microsoft’s heated desire to govern on the new mobile strategy.

Lo afterwards turned his sights upon Apple, carrying this to say upon the topic of Apple’s warding off to support Adobe Flash upon its mobile devices: “What’s a reason for him to trash Flash? There’s no reason other than ego.” Funny, we suspicion it was due to performance, confidence, and power consumption issues. Lo later combined, “Once Steve Jobs goes divided, which is substantially not far away, then Apple will have to have a strategic preference upon either to open up the height.” Classy. Hit the source couple next if you’re just failing to listen to how “closed” systems have been defective to “open” systems all over again.

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It’s been the year of Flash-related play for Adobe, though otherwise it seems like things have been humming along nicely: a association just posted the first-ever quarter with the billion dollars in revenue, which is good for the $268.9 million profit. Unfortunately there’s no granular interpretation on how Flash is faring in a market — it’s lumped into the Creative Solutions group with the rest of the Creative Suite products, though with big wins on Android in a past year as well as the huge win upon a Air-based BlackBerry Playbook entrance next year, we’d say things have been starting good, no matter what Steve Jobs’ Thoughts are.

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The Advent Vega was never a most polished Android tablet in a world — after all, we had to rest on the custom ROM just to get local Android Market entrance — but the in accord with price tag as well as NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 has still done it tough to conflict. For those who’ve managed to obstacle a single already, you might have noticed which a Flash playback isn’t just… overwhelming. That’s substantially because the chronicle loaded onto already-shipped versions isn’t approved by Adobe, and in order to fend off future complaints, the company’s yanking Flash Player entirely from newly-shipping models for a time being. The certification routine is assumingly underway, as well as the outfit expects Vega tablets shipped “in the early part of 2011″ to have a green-lit build pre-installed; as for everybody else, they’ll be provided a gratis update as shortly as it can be pushed out onto a interwebs. Head upon past a mangle for the full statement. Show full PR textImportant refurbish upon the Advent Vega

The Advent Vega has an nVidia Tegra 2 twin core 1GHz processor, though we have just schooled which the chronicle of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 commissioned upon a tablet has not completed a compulsory acceptance tests by Adobe.

Adobe acceptance is a routine of contrast the Adobe Flash Player on the device to ensure the consistently tall user knowledge as well as harmony with usual websites e.g. iPlayer as well as 4 on Demand.

We would similar to to encourage business who have already purchased an Advent Vega, which included an uncertified chronicle of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1; that you stand at the back of the extravagant of these tablets. However, you do need to acquire a scrupulously approved chronicle of a Adobe Flash Player 10.1 before pre-installing it onto serve models.

The acceptance routine is now underway and we guess this will be finish in a early partial of 2011.

New stocks of Advent Vegas purchased after 13th December 2010 will not have Adobe Flash Player 10.1 pre-installed, though we will be providing the seamless as well as free-of-charge download of a approved version as soon as it is accessible. This download will additionally be accessible as an update to users who have already performed a Advent Vega that includes the unofficial Flash Player 10.1.

What does this mean for me? a)If you have purchased an Advent Vega prior to 13th December 2010
Your device has an uncertified chronicle of Adobe Flash Player 10.1. As the outcome, it may have not vaunt a optimal performance which the nVidia Tegra 2 processor is capable of running with sure Flash website calm.

Once we obtain the approved chronicle of Flash Player 10.1 for a Advent Vega, you will yield a seamless, free-of-charge download to this version. The certified program will be accessible to download from our website. http://www.myadventvega.co.uk

b)If you are planning to purchase an Advent Vega from 13th December 2010 onwards
Your device will be shipped without a Adobe Flash Player 10.1 pre-installed. As shortly as we obtain certification for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 we will yield a seamless, free-of- assign download from our website. http://www.myadventvega.co.uk
What do I do subsequent? For all business you recommend induction your Advent Vega at
http://www.myadventvega.co.uk.

Registering your Advent Vega will ensure we have your email residence and contact sum up to date. Once we have a certified chronicle of Flash Player 10.1 accessible you will email all business with an easy to follow set of instructions to install the brand-new software and capacitate hardware accelerated Flash Player 10.1 support upon your Advent Vega.

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You hear about this whole e-books thing? We listen to it’s gonna be a pretty large understanding. Google, regularly with its finger upon a pulse of our ever-evolving digital lifestyles, has motionless to take the wild gash during this nascent market, and is rising Google eBooks today. Formerly well known as Google Editions, a Google eBooks ecosystem is actually a pretty grand gesticulate, as well as seems to mix many of a positives of the primary e-book contenders (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple, naturally), while skimping upon the UI flourishes, in normal Google fashion. Books you buy have been stored in a cloud cover, with your swell synced Whispersync-style, as well as can be review upon your choice of local Android, iPhone, or iPad apps; from your browser; or upon any device that supports a Adobe Digital Editions DRM for PDF as well as ePub files, which includes the B&N Nook as well as the Sony Reader (and copiousness of other devices). Google is also trading upon the immeasurable repository of public domain books, with 3 million free eBooks on offer during the Google eBookstore, in addition to traditional paid fare. It’s positively a swarming marketplace, full of sharp elbows, though it seems Google is carrying no difficulty adjusting.

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We’ve already heard which a Federal Trade Commission is pulling for the “do not lane” button of sorts to stop cookies from examination your each pierce, though it looks like it isn’t interlude during the common, non-edible definiton of a “cookie.” Speaking during the press discussion on Friday, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz additionally dropped the rather interesting delicacy which it’s been talking with Adobe about what it describes as “a Flash complaint.” As Paid Content reports, newly-appointed FTC Chief Technologist Ed Felten later simplified which a problem in subject is actually so-called “Flash cookies,” or what Adobe describes as “internal shared objects.” As Felten explained, those can also be used for tracking purposes, but they customarily aren’t influenced by the remoteness controls in web browsers — Chrome is a single important exception. For it’s part, Adobe says which Flash’s internal common objects were never designed for tracking purposes, as well as that it has regularly condemned such practices — the company additionally added that it would support “any attention initiative to encourage clear, meaningful and persistent preference regarding online tracking.”

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Hey, Adobe’s eventually figured out how to have Flash secure — have Google do it! The guys behind your favorite poke engine have updated their ultimate Dev channel release of Chrome to embody the new sandboxing trickery for Flash Player content. It’ll serve to limit entrance to supportive system resources as well as make Flash’s operation a generally less melancholy proposition than it now is. This also outlines a accomplishment of a longstanding promise from Google to give Flash the same diagnosis it’s afforded to JavaScript and HTML digest for a whilst, as well as should be acquire news to Windows users fervent to minimize “a intensity conflict aspect” of their browser. Sorry, Mac fans, you’re out in the unsecured cold for right away. Of march, the Dev channel itself is one step less polished than beta software, so even if you’re on Windows it competence be receptive to advice to wait for it out a little bit.

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Adobe has launched a public beta of Flash Player 10.2. The biggest change is support for Adobe’s new Stage Video API, which improves support for hardware video acceleration. Translation: If you’ve got a supported video card, you’ll be able to watch HD Flash video without straining your CPU, which means you’ll be able to watch HD video and do other things at the same time without your computer grinding to a halt. Oh yeah, I guess videos should play more smoothly too.

Unfortunately, most netbooks with integrated graphics won’t be able to take advantage of this feature, but if you’ve got a machine with an NVIDIA ION or ATI Radeon graphics card or a Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator, you should see even better Flash video performance thna before.

Flash Player 10.2 beta also includes hardware accelerated graphics support in Internet Explorer 9.

Adobe also says that Flash Player 10.2 beta supports full screen mode with multiple monitors, letting you view full screen video while working on another display. But I just tested that feature on my setup and found that as soon as I clicked on the screen in my second monitor, the full-screen video went back to a small window.

Adobe Flash Player 10.2 beta is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Getting a small more oomph out of your MacBook Air after giving Flash a foot? Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen stopped just short of saying that’s Apple’s fault for not handing Adobe a device forward of time. We asked a CEO what a greater battery holdup sans peep in Apple’s new laptop meant for the height vis-a-vis HTML5 at a Web 2.0 Summit only the couple of mins ago. He pronounced it’s really all about optimizing for silicon: “When you have access to hardware increase in speed, we’ve proven that Flash has equal or better opening on every platform.” You wouldn’t be blamed for thinking that sentence the cop-out, though that’s actually not a box — a chief senior manager says they’ve currently got a Macbook Air in the labs and have an optimized beta of Flash for the device currently in contrast.

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We’ve already well known that Adobe would be bringing Flash Player 10.1 to Windows Phone 7, though a company has only now made which entirely official during the currently-happening MAX discussion (alongside the Air 2.5 announcement), and it’s additionally reliable exactly which alternative mobile platforms the plug-in will be headed to. That includes WebOS 2.0, which we’ve already seen initial hand, along with BlackBerry OS, Symbian, MeeGo and, final though not slightest, the LiMo platform — those will all of march join Android 2.2, which already supports a plug-in. Unfortunately, there’s still no timeline for the release upon each height, with Adobe only observant that which Flash 10.1 is “expected” to hit each mobile OS. Head upon past the break for a applicable dash from Adobe’s press recover.

Flash Player 10.1

Already one of a tip giveaway apps upon Android Market, with some-more than 50,000 users giving it the 4.5-out-of-5 star rating, Flash Player 10.1 brings rich Flash formed calm to mobile inclination inside a browser. The runtime is right away certified on close to a dozen Android inclination as well as will become accessible upon dozens some-more over the coming weeks as well as months. Adobe additionally voiced which Flash Player 10.1 was downloaded some-more than 2 million times from Android Market. In further to Android Market, the runtime is distributed without delay by device manufacturers and operators via pre-installs and operating system upgrades. Flash Player 10.1 is accessible on Android as well as Google TV today, with BlackBerry height, HP webOS 2.0, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo, as well as Symbian OS also approaching to await Flash Player 10.1. For a list of devices supported currently, revisit Adobe Flash Player 10.1 approved inclination.

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