Adobe turns on to Flash TVs

Skinning up another consumer end-point
By Chris Mellor, 20th April 2009

It's the user interface stupid! Adobe is working to bring its Flash web animation and video viewer to the living room via a new run-time system for HD TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other connected living room devices. This is all part of bringing Internet content into the TV viewing experience. The Adobe strategy is an embodiment of the view that for TV viewers the remote control is at the limit of user interface complexity, and the very last thing they want is to have the PC experience right there on the TV screen. That would mean having a keyboard on your lap and becoming au fait with either the Windows (are you serious?), the Mac OSX (better) or the Linux (yikes!) user interfaces. From the TV viewers' point of view the 'G' in the PC GUI stands for ghastly. What Adobe is doing is to enable Internet-connected TV peripherals, or some HD TVs themselves, to receive web animation and video content and then play it on the TV through a simple pick-box-and-remote-control-click interface.

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