Hulu on the iPad?

[kjk]

Originally Posted by Sonist

From Hulu:

"Video quality is very important to us. We adjust the video bitrate between 480Kbps and 700Kbps depending on your bandwidth. Leveraging the H.264 capability of the new Flash Player, we also now offer a portion of our content in a higher resolution 1,000Kbps stream. Videos available in this format will display with a 480p Hi Res button on the lower right-hand side of the player. If you have sufficient bandwidth and Flash Player 10.0.22, click the button to view this high resolution stream. "

Right-but they could have just hard-encoded the content in .FLV, like Youtube originally did. Instead, they separated the player from the content, giving them more flexibility down the road.

[Trubu]

Originally Posted by Sonist

Guys, not to start another flame war, but seriously, why would any sane business abandon a good, robust, extremely widely supported framework and spend a fortune to move to a randomly supported, draft-stage architecture?

I think it's silly to suggest that Hulu should suddenly drop Flash completely and move wholesale to HTML5. It makes perfect sense for them to start doing test rollouts, though (like YouTube is doing), and the iPad/iPhone is an ideal proving ground for that kind of thing.

I'd note that not all that long ago, it was virtually inconceivable that RealPlayer wouldn't be the de facto standard for streaming web media for the foreseeable future. Technology marches on, and the roadside is littered with the mutilated bodies of once-ubiquitous quasi-standards.

[scottjl]

Originally Posted by Trubu

I'd note that not all that long ago, it was virtually inconceivable that RealPlayer wouldn't be the de facto standard for streaming web media for the foreseeable future. Technology marches on, and the roadside is littered with the mutilated bodies of once-ubiquitous quasi-standards.

and it's a good thing too or we'd be watching 80 column ascii art. your realplayer comment made me chuckle. i had all but forgotten about them, never could stand their poor excuse for video and clunky players. interestingly, real networks is spinning off their somewhat successful rhapsody music service so they can focus on real player again. shudder. i for one hope that never comes back.