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CNN Video

June 19th, 2005 | Category: Flash Video, Showcase

CNN has started offering free video streams and is delivering the video via Flash Video. It looks very well done and is a great example of how Flash Video can enhance existing video services. Now if they would just use Flash in the popup version of the video player.

View the videos here.

4 Comments so far

  1. Chris Charlton June 20th, 2005 1:02 am

    I like the “design” of no audio for the preview – makes the sad moments really stand out and helps cut down filesize. I’m shocked the full video doesn’t play right in that player when clicked.

    Good touch on disabling buttons/UI when loading previews.

  2. Sam Robbins June 20th, 2005 8:21 am

    Yeah I was hoping that they would show the full videos inline with the “preview”. It seems like a waste to have to open a popup and watch the video you want to see in Windows Media player.

  3. anonymous June 20th, 2005 9:07 am

    Their Flash Player version detection is buggy…

  4. brandon June 20th, 2005 4:07 pm

    Yeah. The player detect script they are using is pretty old and obviously less than reliable. Nice to see them using Flash video though.

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