AIR, Flash and Football
Evening sports-fans...
Now anyone would think reading the last few entries to this blog that I am big on watching sport! Anyone who knows me would know that's not really true - although I did just watch the final of the US Open, live, on-line, via Flash.
Anyway, little news round-up from the last few days....
Today, Adobe announced that DIRECTV is powering its next-generation NFL Sunday Ticket SUPERCAST service for SuperFan customers on the Web with Adobe Flash technology and Adobe AIR software. DIRECTTV customers can stream live NFL games, DIRECTV’s Red Zone Channel and up-to-the-minute scores and statistics in the browser using the free Adobe Flash Player. In addition, DIRECTV is also providing SUPERCAST as a downloadable AIR application. You can read all about it here.
(American) Football fans without access to DIRECTV aren’t left out in the cold however. Late last week, Adobe announced a partnership with The National Football League (NFL) to deliver live online video streaming of NBC Sunday Night Football games on NFL.com and NBCSports.com using Adobe Flash technology. Again, read all about it here.
Of course, as a Brit I have not the slightest comprehension about American Football, so I'll finish off with a bit more general technology! In just 6-months since its release, we announced today that there have been more than 25 million installations of applications deployed on Adobe AIR. I'm sure you all have your favourites. Mine is a dead-heat between Tweetdeck and Keeley!
Anyway, to read more about all the other great AIR applications available, read the press release here, or check some of them out here.