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Article: New Adobe Media Player goes head-to-head with Microsoft.(PRODUCT WATCH)
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- The Online Reporter
- Article date:
- April 21, 2007
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Adobe Systems this week announced its upcoming Adobe Media Player, which uses the company's Flash and Apollo technology to allow consumers to download video content and view it in full-screen mode, whether online or offline.
Due out in beta this summer and in final version by year-end, Adobe Media Player competes directly with PC-based media players such as Microsoft's Windows Media Player, RealNetworks' RealPlayer, Apple's QuickTime and other PC-based media players.
Adobe, which unveiled the product at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show in Vegas this week, said Adobe Media Player will be positioned to enable "new ways to ...