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Which Video Format Will Win?

Obviously one of our favorite blogs, TechCrunch, has posted a very interested article on the current battle of Standard Video formating for the web. The players are the current Flash vs. H.264 vs. the new open sourced HTML 5: Ogg Theora. Here is what they had to say: With YouTube and other video sites serving up over a billion streams a day, it’s beyond contention that web-based video is not only mainstream, but has become fundamental to the web experience. Why, then, is a huge majority of web video in a wrapped in a proprietary Flash candy coating — essentially making Adobe the gatekeeper of video content? It’s worked okay so far, but it’s hardly a fertile ground for innovation, not to mention the fact that Flash is a real dog on OS X and any kind mobile browser (if it’s even supported).

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