CBS Jumps The Gun

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Posted on 24 March 2010 by Colum ODwyer

While many are counting down the days till the iPad Launches it seems like CBS has jumped the gun. Yesterday At 10:21pm when I went to go watch the latest tv shows on CBS.com on their home page i found two interesting video clips. The pictures are placed below it seems that CBS has begun testing iPad video for their website. However, it is still a Flash based video player which leaves many questions left open, mainly why is CBS testing a Flash video for the iPad.

Update: As Macrumors.com reported after we ran our story they investigated the css of the page to discover that there was in fact references to HTML 5 as well as several parts of webkit.

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2 Comments For This Post

Lavaman Says:
March 25th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Great catch!
Kevin H. Patterson Says:
March 25th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
They can test it using a Flash player because the iPhone an iPod use QuickTime to play H.264 video. Adobe added H.264 support to Flash some time back.

I think HTML5, SVG, and CSS3 will ultimately replace Flash. RIP.

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