Adobe Launches Media Player

Edit Staff, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 7:49 AM PT Comments (5)

Adobe today launches its Adobe Media Player, a product we’ve been following closely. AMP channels RSS feeds for streaming and download of online video from partners such as MTV and CBS. The Adobe Air-based software has a simple UI that feels a bit like a file organization system. Full report on NewTeeVee.

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5 comments so far

April 9th, 2008
10:11 AM PT
Jason said:

It doesn’t play a lot of the MP4s that I have locally. What good is it?

April 9th, 2008
10:50 AM PT

I knew this was coming.. Expect many updates soon cause there are a bunch of features missing.

April 9th, 2008
8:10 PM PT
Brian Moura said:

Agreed. It doesn’t support enough video formats. I’ll stay with Miro.

April 9th, 2008
8:12 PM PT
Om Malik said:

In keeping with the spirit of this thread: i am sticking with Miro and Quicktime.

April 10th, 2008
9:58 PM PT
Quli said:

Tell me again, WHY adobe has launched a media player …dont we have enough already?

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