Thread: What The Professional says about the N900! and the iPad for that matter...
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notnarb is offline notnarb
2010-04-08 , 22:35
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Originally Posted by coosbaytv View Post
So before you give me the line about the iPad missing Flash, I can only say one thing; HTML5 and H.264. Twelve months from now, Flash video won't be an issue. Why, because the Pros use Mac based products (QT) to create content. The major players in content creation have already started to go back and re-encode their content (if necessary) to H.264 mpeg-4.
I can't help but feel that your views on flash are somewhat naive. "Pros" dont publish their content directly on to the web, they go through other services like youtube. "Pros" using Mac products (which certainly not all do) has little effect on the prevalence of online video format standards because the content distributors (youtube, etc) chose the end-format, and convert everything they publish anyways, and even then, flash works fine on Macs so I fail to see why them "using Mac products" has any relevance whatsoever (QT? I sure hope you aren't abbreviating Quicktime there -- the program which might influence a pro to work on a Mac is FinalCut Pro, not the batty integrated media player on OSX). There is also no currently accepted standard for html5 video -- Firefox wants to use an open codec while Chrome and Safari use h.264 which will have licensing fees associated with its usage in the near future.