Frankly, I feel extremely misled by the description of AMP on its product page. Calling it a Media Player and all the talk of being able to watch what you want, when you want and streaming and downloading video – all you can actually do is watch stuff from the signed up content providers, or that you’ve already got on your hard drive (and have presumably got a player for already, that will almost certainly take up a lot less screen estate than this beast). Oh, and there’s some mention of adding RSS feeds of videos – though looking at other posts here whether that works is debatable. Anything else might as well not exist.

I had hoped that it would be a way of watching embedded streamed flash videos without having to have the whole webpage that they’re on open – this would give you just the video, so would be more compact, and would be resizeable so you could watch it at any size you liked, not just the default or full-screen. After all, coming from Adobe, there would be no problem about having to reverse engineer the RTMP format.

Maybe even (though I thought it unlikely) being able to download videos where the provider permitted it – no worry though, there are other tools for that.

Also – the design. A massive window, not resizeable at all except to minimise / maximise. Appalling contrast – it’s like being in a cave, everything’s so black. I couldn’t even see that there were scroll bars – just waved my mouse around where I thought they should be.

It’s like having the worst, most useless part of RealPlayer (the download centre, or whatever they call it) and not the player itself. This is not a media player – a client, maybe.

Frankly, the only reason I can see for installing this is if there is some content that it has that you can’t get anywhere else. If not, don’t waste your time – use something else.

Like I say, I’m disappointed. I feel like I’ve been lied to and had my time wasted. Unless I’m really missing something??

Now we’ll see how easily it uninstalls…

Now consider the focus Adobe has admitted to (white label publishers) vs offerings like Miro and VLC (other human beings), and I don’t think you could be more wrong.

You’re obviously joking. Please, let’s stop comparing established companies with solid software like Adobe with bogus nonsense companies like Odeo.

Nice screen name by the way.