80% of Internet PCs are Ready for HD Video

Mark R Robertson   |   July 15, 2008   |  

adobe flash player 9Just last week,  Flash Player senior product manager Justin Everett-Church announced on his blog the newest Flash Player penetration stats. According to the updated penetration stats, 81.7% (in mature markets) of internet connected PCs now have Flash Player 9.0.115.  As you may already know, the newest release of Flash player 9 brought the Flash Player cache for Flex framework caching, hardware-scaled full screen, multi-core rendering, and H.264/AAC HD video.

With support for H.264, the Flash player is excellent for playback of Full high-definition HD video (1080p).

Worldwide Ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by Version — June 2008

Flash Player 6 Flash Player 7 Flash Player 8 Flash Player 9 Flash Player 9.0.115*
Mature Markets No longer surveyed 99.0% 98.7% 97.7% 81.7%
US/Canada No longer surveyed 99.1% 98.9% 97.8% 83.3%
Europe No longer surveyed 98.5% 97.9% 96.5% 78.6%
Japan No longer surveyed 99.3% 99.3% 98.8% 81.3%
Emerging Markets No longer surveyed 97.3% 97.1% 96.2% 82.4%

*Flash Player 9 Update 3, released on 12/4/2007, introduced H.264 video and HE-AAC audio playback, multi-core support, hardware scaling of HD quality full-screen video and component caching. Includes v9.0.115 and v9.0.124.

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  • Yeah, the "player" may be ready for HD, does not mean the processing power of the machine is. Two very different metrics.
  • Very Good point. Thanks Dan.
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