Adobe's Flash comes to tellies

They are on the bandwagon so they can shove more adverts at you. My God it's full of adverts!
Freaking aholes anyway. I used a free browser once for my Mac (can not recall the name) that allowed you to disable Flash, it was refreshing.

TV is obsolete or more correctly merging with HTPC.
My TV is used as large HD monitor for HTPC. No cable or satellite connection.
The only use for remote control is to power it on or off. I have another one for media center (not windows).
So probably i live in the future :)

Why the heck don't we have hardware acceleration for flash? Many small flash games cause my CPU to go 100%.

No consumer wants flash on a telly. It may look ok as a marketing point but the users don't know what they want. It will only be bad: More annoying ads, more compatibility problems, more badly designed content, higher power use.

The web would be better off without flash - most of the worst websites I've ever seen are casualties of flash. I also hate when I can't access a site from Opera Mini on my Blackberry Bold because the site has an over reliance on flash. Not having flash isn't a limitation of Opera or the Bold - requiring it is a limitation of a website. I don't expect high def video or flash games to work on the Bold, but I do expect essentially text based websites to work.

And the flash ads are becoming so flickery and annoying, I've submitted a request to Adobe (several times) requesting a mandatory 'Finish' feature in Flash content. The player should always present the finish option on a right click. When selected the Flash content should have 2 seconds to wind up it's animation and settle on the final screen it wants presented. Once the two seconds are up all dynamic content is shutdown and only the final static image remains.

Also browser stabilities range a lot, from crashing every day to only seeing one crash a month, But they all have one thing in common - uninstall flash (and the adobe reader plugin if you're unfortunate enough to have that) and your browser stability will significantly increase.

It's time for the world to stand up and say no, we don't want flash or silverlight or any other non-standard plugin. The standards coming out of the W3c are now feature rich enough and javascript is fast enough that we don't need flash anymore.

Now that's funny: I just switched off Flash in my Firefox browser, because of those annoying audio ads. Thank God, activating and deactivating Flash is a snap with Firefox. Flash on my telly? One more reason to pull the plug!

That's a nice idea. Adobe should implement a "stop" option in the right-click menu.

play visual media on my telly but use more resources? WOW!
My telly is going out the window as I can now use a £20 card to record whatever I like from the digital.
And Flashblock will deal with the rest!

Whatever next - a computer crippled and called a phone and then you can pay to have it turned back into a computer. Dont be silly.....

Running Flash on the headend is not efficiently scalable. Developing new set top boxes or televisions to support it will take forever to get into the home if there adopted at all. Besides if I want to watch video, I'll use my computer where the there is already an abundance of resources. Some people just don't get it. More money wasted thrown at a bad idea. Got to love these over paid CEO's.

That is all.

Now tellies and Blu-ray players have to be updated once every week to fix security problems? Not to mention the snooping??? I will not buy such sh!t

And you thought 1984 looked grimm...

wait wait wait your telling me that they couldnt already do that? wtf are they good for then

The great purveyor of bandwidth caps Comcast is working against itself here aren't they?

"Sure send YouTube to your TV... but not too much per month...."

douchebags...

It's the scalability of the Flash coding environment that's important. Vector graphics and interactive environments suit the rich digital medium.

As opposed to the dull text and MPEG video splices that form the bedrock of TV, DVD and Blu-ray menus.

Banner Ads are brought in whether its Flash or plain text. People need to make money off their site's traffic so let them.

Commercialization is necessary, get over it, simply train yourself to go banner blind quicker.