Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. II.
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Old 13-04-2011, 14:14   #369
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. II.
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Originally Posted by TheDon View Post
It's not as simple as that.
The boxes have to have a chipset that is capable of running said player.

It's not like a PC where you have the processing grunt to do whatever you feel like, these are specialist chipsets with highly specialised instruction sets that do a limited amount of tasks extremely well, and that's about it. Everything they do is hardware accelerated, whereas a PC you can just do it in software.

If the chipset the boxes run don't support flash then no amount of code dropping will bring them flash support!
Getting HTML on there is almost as bad too, the thing with modern HTML interpreters/engines is that an amazing amount of work goes into them just to make them run at a decent speed with full compatibility on decent hardware. Something like a STB is going to have a hard time hitting what we have come to see as the norm without a lot of work and investment. To see my point give the PS3 browser a go.
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