Adobe Flash

[pinion]

Hate? I love my iphone and ipad and I use airplay all the time. My point is that Flash does not limit the boxee box much at all. The boxee box has tons of features that I use all the time and flash is not one of them. The previous poster was saying he was sending his back because of flash...which I think is ridiculous. Now if it was a system that relied heavily on flash then yes, but the boxee box doesn't.

I see your point now and I agree with you.

[zorlan]

I see your point now and I agree with you.

Yeah sorry if I wasn't clear. My post was short. I understood your point too. Many companies are tailoring their sites and content to the ipad and iphone now so that apple doesn't even have to budge on their stance on flash.

[dolph]

This was posted on February 7th from Marcel and Yuvalt. Looks like we need to ride this one out until everyone switches to HTML 5.

Well, being brand new to the Boxee experience, this is discouraging news. I am glad that I can return it. I could live with Hulu trying to decide what to do, but this flash problem is a whole other issue. Note to Boxee dev. team: Get it straight, your stuff shouldn't be this hard to use. The competition is chomping at your arse and you are on the upper end of the cost spectrum.

[Rustycar]

The good news it seems is that Adobe have stated they will continue to support "Televesion" Flash support which hopefully Boxee falls under although I do wonder if it does.

We are firmly committed to the television space and will continue to optimize our technology for TV hardware that enables great video and gaming experiences.
While we have historically licensed Flash Player for general web browsing on TVs , we do not recommend this approach given the difficultly of ensuring consistent and high-quality “full web” browsing on TV hardware.

Flash for linux PC is not dead as long as the web browser in question supports Google's Pepper API, I think there is some crossover here with the linux OS that underpins Boxee so if Boxee can support that there is a chance Adobe may provide an updated version sooner rather than later.

Non Pepper linux PC platforms will be frozen at 11.2 with security updates.

Oh and further complicating matters HTML5 DRM video is going nowhere.

[Bixiee]

I can't wait until Flash is dead personally. It's not Boxee's fault that these stations don't support an older version of flash.

Don't worry, Adobe is doing all it can to kill the format.

[Bixiee]

Hard to blame this one on boxee since its basically out of their hands.

Well, we used to be able to watch TWiTs stream via a m3u, then Boxee removed that ability - so yes, blame!

[diverbelow]

I see ABC and Xfinitytv.com have updated their players to flash 11 and no longer playable through boxee.

[methyltryp]

I see ABC and Xfinitytv.com have updated their players to flash 11 and no longer playable through boxee.

Yeah that was a real kick in the arse. I'm starting to get fairly annoyed I spent money on this thing.

[twistybox]

Yeah that was a real kick in the arse. I'm starting to get fairly annoyed I spent money on this thing.

Turn that annoyance to where it belongs: ABC and the other sites using Flash. Trust that at lest some of them are increasing the version requirements for Flash purposefully to prevent their content from being viewed on Boxee and similar products that don't have access to newer Flash libraries (for which you can blame Adobe).

Honestly, there's no network TV content out there today that actually requires Flash to view - you just have to watch via a different source.

[BF_Hammer]

This whole Adobe flash issue is killing the usability of the BB for me. I stated it in another thread, but Boxee created a device that is dependent on Flash to view a great deal of current content. It really is Boxee's responsibility to find a solution, even if it might mean bringing in somebody that can write the required code that Adobe refuses to do. They created their own means of going obsolete in short order by making the BB so dependent on other company's work.

As of now, watching TV episodes with Boxee Box is pretty much dead functionality. No cutting the cable with this device anymore. I'm using it strictly as a means of watching movies now via Navi-X, or bittorrenting a movie and viewing from a local hard disk storage. I could have just recycled an old PC with XBMC and Hulu desktop app and have more functions now.