{"id":8577,"date":"2010-04-15T12:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/popbox_the_flash_vs_apple_war_gets_interesting.html"},"modified":"2010-04-15T12:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:12:01","slug":"popbox-the-flash-vs-apple-war-gets-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/popbox-the-flash-vs-apple-war-gets-interesting.html","title":{"rendered":"Popbox: The Flash vs. Apple War Gets Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expect TVoIP to be a big part of the reason Adobe&#8217;s Flash becomes more important &#8211; all while Apple and others continue to try to bury the technology before it is even dead. Wired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/04\/as-apple-barricades-flash-hdtv-embraces-it\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">explains<\/a> that the new $129 popbox set-top box announced Thursday by Syabas Technology provides a platform for HDTV apps. According the article the platform ships with Channels.com (an aggregator of web-based television shows), FunSpot Games, Netflix, Photobucket (photo sharing), Revision3 (original video programming), Shoutcast internet radio and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Just as ATAs from companies like Vonage dramatically changed the landscape of communications, television is next and the battle is heating up. And as the war continues &#8211; all of Apple&#8217;s competitors will likely partner with Adobe and use Flash in order to differentiate themselves from Apple. If Flash does become even more entrenched in set-tops and even TVs it may just be a matter of time before Apple has a change of heart regarding the multimedia programming technology.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The <a href=\"http:\/\/deviceguru.com\/popbox-vs-boxeebox\/\">news<\/a> regarding Popbox has been around since January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect TVoIP to be a big part of the reason Adobe&#8217;s Flash becomes more important &#8211; all while Apple and others continue to try to bury the technology before it is even dead. Wired explains that the new $129 popbox set-top box announced Thursday by Syabas Technology provides a platform for HDTV apps. According the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,170,181,172,196,199,213,118,177,174,190,191,205,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}