Adobe's new Media Player: bring it on, QuickTime and WMP

[Scot Hacker]

On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Eugene wrote:

>
> So AMP provides Big Brother features for content producers
> and offers nothing for content consumers.  So why should I
> ever use this?

The  next paragraph says:

> From the user perspective, Adobe claims that Media Player will  
> offer higher-quality Flash playback than previously available. The  
> application will also have the ability to play videos offline,  
> "ways to discover interesting new shows," fullscreen capabilities,  
> viewer ratings, and a Favorites feature that can automatically  
> download new episodes of a show or podcast series.

What  I'd like to  hear: "AMP will  also offer an easy-to-use,  
reliable genuine streaming server solution economically competitive  
with QuickTime Streaming Server, i.e. free."

./s