Hulu Developing Non-Flash Player for Deployment on iPad?

[50548]

YAY! Get Flash the F outta here!

Couldn't have said it better myself...this just continues to confirm my view that Flash will be moribund in no time following mass migration to other standards, thanks to Adobe's stupidly lazy and stubborn behavior against Apple.

FLASH IS DEAD. AND SO IS ADOBE.

 

[GeekLawyer]

Definitely good news, although I can't help but wonder if the iPad would actually provide a superior Hulu viewing experience than a notebook. More versatile and portable, maybe.

I'm not convinced it has to be better. Equal performance to a notebook is a feather in the cap of a tweener device like iPad.

 

[*LTD*]

Hulu knows what we all suspect: the iPad will be huge and you need to cater to iPad users if you want your content to matter.

 

[jazz4ivo]

AND SO IT BEGINS...

The days of flash video dominance are now numbered.

First it was YouTube now Hulu and soon to be followed by the BBC iPlayer and every other major content provider.

"Flash... my dear old friend - it was nice knowing you, but times have changed. So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye ..."

 

[zim]

Already use the HTML5 version of Youtube and am very happy with the performance. It would be great if Hulu went the same direction.. I might actually start using it if they did!

 

[gibbz]

I guess this would remove one of the talking points of iPad haters.

 

[aforty]

Who the hell reads that news bit and then votes "Negative"?!

What's wrong with people??

 

[splashman]

Hulu knows what we all suspect: the iPad will be huge and you need to cater to iPad users if you want your content to matter.

Addendum: Hulu knows what we all (including Adobe) suspect -- that the iPad will be huge. And that's why Adobe is frantically trying to convince anyone who will listen (click-whoring press, MS fangirls) that the iPad will be crippled without Flash.

Pass the popcorn; this is just starting to get good.

 

[BigJimmyC]

Hooray! Because Apple refuses to support an industry standard, other companies must find workarounds so that mindless Apple fanatics who buy semi-functional products can still use their websites! Glory be to Apple! And shame on Adobe for writing software that people use. This will teach you!

 

[50548]

Who the hell reads that news bit and then votes "Negative"?!

What's wrong with people??

Windows fanboys; the usual Apple-bashing trolls that populate this forum; and the odd Flash developer trying to justify his living...nothing else, Sir.

 

[goobot]

i would also be nice to have native app

 

[casik]

I bet my first iPad that it won't be available in Canada.

 

[Random Ping]

I'm not convinced Hulu will do this anytime soon. Not until it jacks up the new subscription service.

An iPad app that Hulu created and controlled makes more sense than an independent application effort. Also, Apple customers are used to paying for content through the iTunes store, and Apple has a huge number of accounts complete with credit card info -- two things Hulu should like.

I'm guessing that at or about ship time Apple will have nice apps for YouTube, Hulu, and at least one more streaming service. I hope Netflix gets onboard.

 

[szark]

Windows fanboys; the usual Apple-bashing trolls that populate this forum; and the odd Flash developer trying to justify his living...nothing else, Sir.

Don't forget the "people who vote no just to see the reaction of people asking why someone voted no."

 

[jeepik]

this is perfection if it happens

only thing i use my laptop these days is to catch up on shows that my worthless comcast DVR refuses to record, can always count on Hulu!!!

 

[Yvan256]

Dear Hulu,

here's a list of things for you to do:
1. remove Flash as a video player and stream your H.264/AAC files directly to the devices (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, etc)
2. make your service available to Canadians

 

[MacFly123]

YAY! Get Flash the F outta here!

Yay! Death to the Flash scourge!

As a video player, Flash is soon to be ancient history. And good riddance.

AMEN!!! +1 here!

 

[marksman]

Who the hell reads that news bit and then votes "Negative"?!

What's wrong with people??

People that don't understand how mac rumors works and neg vote anything they don't care about....


ie people living in the past worrying about mbp refreshes.

 

[EagerDragon]

I imagine that Adobe is not happy, probably will try to change their mind. This can mark the end of flash.

 

[theLimit]

Praise cheeses for the downfall of Flash. It's a bitch-dog even on Windows. There is no reason why the low-quality video that Flash provides should take up so much bandwidth and system resources.

 

[Aranince]

If this is true...Adobe just took it right in the kisser. I really hope this is true, this would be HUGE news for Adobe, the iPad, and many other media consumption devices.

 

[sbrhwkp3]

TechCrunch reports that popular video site Hulu is working to bring its content to the iPad, despite the lack of support for Flash content on Apple's new tablet device.The report notes that porting its content to a non-Flash player would not be completely trivial given Hulu's investment in having created a unique Flash-based platform, but the company would be "more than capable" of making the transition. With Hulu's videos already encoded in the H.264 format used on the iPhone and iPad, whether or not to develop a Flash-less player for the content appears to be more of a business decision than a technical one.

Article Link: Hulu Developing Non-Flash Player for Deployment on iPad?

SWEET!

Even more of an incentive for me to buy one now.

 

[Glideslope]

I can predict exponential growth in Hulu's viewership if they did this.

Yes, and others will follow rapidly.

 

[layte]

Seeing as currently only two marginal browser creators are supporting h.264 (with Firefox saying GTF and Microsoft probably going down their own road as is their want) the fabled and magical /video tag (which after reading macrumors appears to be able to do anything the fanatics think of it) has a long road ahead of it to topple Flash as a content delivery platform (ignoring everything else it brings to the table for the sake of this argument). Open standards are all well and good, but until everyone can agree on how to implement them, Flash is here to stay, whether Steve likes it or not.


(as an aside, is the MASSIVE IRONY of Apple fanboys wishing death to Adobe not lost on anyone?)

 

[nagromme]

The existing Hulu site can’t be used without a mouse anyway: it relies on telling the difference between hovering with the mouse vs. clicking. Touchscreens have no such concepts—it’s always a “click.”

Ditto for most Flash sites. They’d need to be redesigned anyway for touchscreens—so of course they’ll use something other than Flash, when 99% of the touchscreens in consumers’ hands don’t run Flash, and the other 1% do but it sucks away battery life so you can’t get through a movie!

YouTube and Hulu on iPad, and more free games than you can shake a stick at. Flash will not be missed for long.*

* But I trust it WILL be around a long while on desktops, as ONE option for a site, as well as for standalone things like kiosks. I expect it will go the way of Director: a tool for certain things, not for "everything.” (And as a Flash developer by trade, I hope it doesn’t go ALL the way Director went: a tool for nothing! If it does, it won’t be soon.)

Where Adobe could shine is in making Flash TOOLS for developing those certain things. And right now, Flash as a tool is pretty horrible. I’d love to see it become awesome—and then see that same tool support SVG etc. in future. Adobe’s sales of Flash would stay strong and we’d all benefit.