The Adobe Flash platform will be added to televisions, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, and other digital entertainment devices in the living room.
"Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home will dramatically change the way we view content on televisions," Adobe VP of Platform Business Unit David Wadhwani said. "Consumers are looking to access their favourite Flash technology-based videos, applications, services and other rich Web content across screens."
Flash in the living room will give TV viewers the ability to watch a wider collection of high-definition videos, access more Internet content through Internet-enabled TVs, and Flash-based games can now be played through the TV.
Furthermore, companies such as Intel, Yahoo and Netflix will be able to use Flash-based programming in the future. Flash-enabled TV sets will allow Internet video providers to use the Internet to stream HD content directly into the living room.
Adobe has dominated the PC market -- and has expanded to mobile phones -- and now it's time to begin to control the TV market. TVs with Flash should be available during the second half of the year, Adobe said. Manufacturers looking to develop TVs connected to the Internet will likely want to use Flash, because it'll offer consumers more content choices to watch in the future.
It was possible to watch some YouTube videos on TV, but many of them couldn't play. I've spent some time using an Internet-connected TV, and it has been quite annoying to try and watch certain video clips that cannot play because Flash doesn't work.
