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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Let's also not forget that youtube re encoded pretty much all of its content solely to accomodate iPhone users.
How long did that take them? Less time than iPhones have been on the market.
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Yea, that beta is nice. But as you can see, it will take a long time to propogate. IE8 isn't html5 compliant ... and we all know that IE6 is STILL hanging around.
The new video tag in HTML5 will indeed be sweet. It will be great for basic video players. But, there is the issue of rights manage material and security. And the issue of metadata, streaming techniques, etc. For more robust players, Flash will still rule the day - not even sure if HTML5 will allow for dynamic variable bitrates.