New Adobe Player Adds Sony Movies; Still Trying Harder
This story was written by Rafat Ali.
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), in a somewhat foolhardy quest to develop and establish its own media distribution creds, has now updated its Media Player with a new interface, and added full length movies from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures...also added are new shows from CBS (NYSE: CBS), including episodes of Beverly Hills 90210, 48 Hours, The Love Boat. About 600 shows and 25,000 individual episodes are available in all in AMP. No numbers have yet been given on the number of AMP downloads, but Adobe's approach to this seems counter-intuitive to how ubiquitous Flash has become as the default video player across the distributed Web...trying to then deduce that because of this ubiquity, users will download a new mediaplayer and develop new loyalties to a closed desktop app is, as I mentioned before, counter-intuitive.
By Rafat Ali