Adobe to deliver TV shows via Adobe AIR

“Adobe Systems Inc. has started public trials of software that will deliver ad-supported subscriptions to TV programs, including CBS Corp’s ‘CSI,’ ‘Survivor’ and ‘Big Brother,’ a company official said on Thursday,” Jim Finkle reports for Reuters.

“The software maker has established partnerships with media companies including CBS and MTV-parent Viacom Inc., which will provide their programming through Adobe Media Player [Adobe AIR], said Adobe Senior Director of Product Marketing Mark Randall,” Finkle reports.

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MacDailyNews Note: Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 1.0 is a free runtime environment that lets developers use web technologies such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML and Ajax, to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems. It is currently available for Macintosh and Windows. More info and download link here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mr. Reeee” for the heads up.]

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