Adobe Flash shipping in HTVs this year

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Adobe Flash, the web technology behind Hulu and YouTube videos, not to mention thousands of applications on the web, is expected to come to the television later this year. Both TVs and set-top boxes supporting Flash should start selling later this year. If the technology becomes standard for video across computers, televisions and mobile phones, content creators will only have to create for one format. For viewers like you and me, Flash could bring the promise of instant video on any screened device to fruition. However, Microsoft's Silverlight technology is a potential competitor, and according to the company can display video at a higher resolution than Flash.