Universal Sports Changed to Adobe Flash Player 10 today

by ZoeRochelle on May 12, 2009 10:23 PM EDT

for video. Yeah!!

Which means it should be a much easier viewing experience for Mac users (and Windows for those with issues.) I got video on demand to work on my Mac no problem this afternoon. It wasn't working previously even with Flip4Mac and it also the Flip4Mac plug-in doesn't give the user any control over the video. Flash does. You can rewind, fast forward and pause. That is nice.

I had been using Boot Camp to run Windows XP to watch the Giro video up until today. Not necessary any more.

If you don't have it already, you'll need to install Flash Player 10. Page is here for downloading it for all operating systems - Mac, Windows and even Linux!

Also, Universal Sports said that not all video on demand has been changed to Flash but today's Giro stage is. I just watched it.

Girbecco says: Universal Sports believes in cycling

Update: If you want to try testing it out try watching this video of today's stage. Its in flash player.

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was this done after today's stage?

i installed every patch and suggestion and never got anything but sound (windows)… i hope hope hope this means tomorrow will be better! :) thanks!

by cg. on May 12, 2009 10:28 PM EDT reply actions

Yes. It happened at about 11am.

by ZoeRochelle on May 12, 2009 10:30 PM EDT up reply actions

US Pacific Time. LOL. Always forget I have to add that.

by ZoeRochelle on May 12, 2009 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions

no, stage 4 was in flash

"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind

by umwolverine on May 13, 2009 5:21 AM EDT up reply actions

You can try watching today's Video

You can test it out by trying to watch this video of today’s stage.

by ZoeRochelle on May 12, 2009 10:33 PM EDT reply actions

Very nice.

by ursula on May 12, 2009 10:57 PM EDT reply actions

The first 30 minutes today were very choppy for me

which had me infuriated and cursing out my computer screen. But the last hour and a half were pretty much flawless. I didn’t see much of a difference in quality but i guess you funky mac people do. Btw. the guy who plays the pc guy(John hodgman) in those commercials is awesome and on the daily show unlike the mac douche, so those commercials never make sense to me, just a random comment.

In Chauncey we trust!

by Phil H. on May 12, 2009 11:03 PM EDT reply actions

Much better

by johnw on May 12, 2009 11:04 PM EDT reply actions

I like it but...

It seems that now if you are on a slower connection that you can’t pause to get a bigger buffer. This is frustrating as you then deal with constantly choppy video.

by profgubler on May 12, 2009 11:30 PM EDT reply actions

Hm

OK, will see how it goes tomorrow.

Abruzziamo!

by Chris Fontecchio on May 13, 2009 1:54 AM EDT reply actions

CTV

is so screwed.

Flahutes: Harden the F--k Up!

by bobgade on May 13, 2009 3:12 AM EDT reply actions

hate Hate HATE flash....

even on replay it sputters and freezes….

"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind

by umwolverine on May 13, 2009 5:23 AM EDT reply actions

I have to admit

I cringed when I saw this post. “Upgrades” in the middle of something hardly ever go well, and I hate flash. But this actually seems to have made a good thing even better. Universal has been a very pleasant surprise so far.

"I get paid to hurt other people. How good is that? How good is that?
I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, that's good." Jens!

by jsallee00 on May 13, 2009 11:58 AM EDT reply actions