Adobe Promises Hardware-Accelerated Flash For Tegra, Broadcom
Adobe Promises Hardware-Accelerated Flash For Tegra, Broadcom
Posted 06/03/2009 at 1:58pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Netbook owners are all too familiar with the perils of watching any type of processor hungry HD video on our tiny beloved machines. But, thanks to a recent announcement by Adobe, those days are coming to a close (sort of).
The announcement, which came in two parts (from Nvidia and Broadcom) promises full hardware acceleration for Flash video, mostly by means of upgrades to Adobe’s plugin. This upgrade will guarantee smooth playback of HD flash video.
Sadly, most current-gen netbook owners won’t get to see any of these advances, because in order to put them to use you’ll need to have a machine based on Nvidia’s Tegra solution, or an Atom powered netbook with Broadcom’s Crystal HD video accelerator addon.
This advance will be making its way to consumers in the first half of 2010.
Image Credit: Adobe
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Keith E. Whisman
June 04, 2009 at 12:00am
What ever happened to the promised flash support for the G1 Phone? Flash screamed to the world it was only a few weeks away back in December. It's still not here.
Chocolate
June 03, 2009 at 3:30pm
The Zune HD is roumered to be powered by Tegra graphics right? Any chance this takes advantage of that? Maybe stream videos off the device onto a television?
nekollx
June 03, 2009 at 2:08pm
what about notebook/desktop/nettops with dedicated graphics, will they benifit from the upgrade?
n0b0dykn0ws
June 03, 2009 at 2:47pm
That's what I wish to know as well.
It really sucks that having a beefy system doesn't mean flash plays well.
Look at Hulu as the best example.
n0b0dykn0ws
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