MSNBC.com launches Flash video player
Cory Bergman November 16th, 2006
MSNBC.com’s new player will sniff your system’s settings and play either a Windows Media or Flash file, which means it now works in Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari. Thank you, Microsoft (and NBC). Press release…
REDMOND — MSNBC.com expands its video functionality to include more browser types and Mac users. With the new MSNBC.com Video Player Beta, users of Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and other browsers can watch MSNBC.com on-demand video, delivered using Flash at www.video.msnbc.com. The new player automatically detects a user’s system settings and delivers either the Windows Media or Flash file, depending on the browser. Advertising functions identically in both players.
MSNBC.com is the leader in online news video serving an average of 60 million videos per month, including on-demand and live video from NBC News and MSNBC.com. NBC News was the first network to offer full Netcasts of its programming, launching the “Nightly News Netcast,” “Meet the Press Netcast” and “Today Netcast” in the last year. This week, MSNBC.com launched video podcasts of “Nightly News” and “Meet the Press” (www.podcasts.msnbc.com) and the “Nightly News” video podcast quickly rose to the number one podcast at the iTunes music store. Brian Williams was the first network news anchor to offer a video blog, “The Early Nightly” (www.dailynightly.msnbc.com). Recorded every morning by Williams and other NBC News correspondents, “The Early Nightly” offers an early glimpse into “NBC Nightly News’” broadcast day.
9 Comments Add your own
1. Vinny | November 16th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Bout frigging time
2. thedetroitchannel | November 16th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
something tells me rex is in the house. ?
3. Rex | November 17th, 2006 at 12:48 am
Progress… it’s a wonderful thing.
4. jka | November 17th, 2006 at 5:47 am
Didn’t get it to work using The beta flash player 9 under Linux… It just says Loading…
5. thomas | November 17th, 2006 at 6:58 am
Sites have had this feature for quite some time now, geez, make it seem as if its big news.
6. thedetroitchannel | November 17th, 2006 at 7:05 am
it’s probably not big news unless you compare it to the story LR ran 6 months ago about the AP site that didn’t have this feature…if i recall the spokeswoman said it would take “6 months before they could address the problem”.
then rex chimed in with something like “give me a sever wrench and a half hour”.
am i mistaken?
7. thedetroitchannel | November 17th, 2006 at 7:06 am
ooops, that was “SERVER wrench”…
8. adm | November 17th, 2006 at 10:13 am
thanks, rex.
9. Lucy | January 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Wow, thanks for the excellent information!
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