Has nothing to do with control it has to do with money. If you don't think they have control why do you think USA can stop you from watching any of their shows anywhere except if you have programming that subscribes to that channel. Yes they have control over who gets access to their content. That being said like I said before its 50/50, flash is very VERY resource hungry, I'm not sure about Google TV having flash I would have to look that up, in fact I would have to look up any smart TV's also having it as I tend to doubt this most likely this is some type of work around, Most likely the browser that he's talking about is made by Google, and the TV actually runs a version of android which supports flash. This actually has nothing to do with the TV maker in the slightest it has everything to do with Google. So saying its a crappy browser with the TV is probably false. And its most likely an expensive TV. At any rate no the content providers do not stop you from using flash, but they can stop you from accessing it even if you have flash. Like I said USA doesn't matter if you have a PC, phone unless you subscribe to it with your actually TV programming you aren't allowed to view it, don't believe me go check. The only way to get them is through some black market site that throws up recordings someone took off their TV most likely. And anybody saying flash can be and would be implemented in an update is wrong. I know you wanna believe this. Microsoft could put flash in tomorrow if they wanted and it wouldn't take them a day to do it. They have reasons more than one why its not and I would bet money like I mentioned before that its not ever coming to Xbox. You may eventually see apps across the board that support all the shows sooner or later but flash probably won't make its way. And I would say the biggest reason is performance, it has terrible performance, if you wanted ANYTHING else running in the background flash would eat up all the memory. It has nothing to do with the capabilities of the CPU or GPU its the memory flash would just eats memory, and with an Xbox that runs up to 4 things at once and they want it to be able to switch in an INSTANT not 10 seconds later flash is out of the question and will stay that way. And yes flash is on its way out, and yes 90% TV show sites use flash but this doesn't mean its not on its way out, how long who knows but doesn't matter because apple and Microsoft both feel it has security issues and has major performance issues compared to what they wanna see in their product. I have never liked flash since day one, I remember when It first came out and some older PC's it would take 8 minutes to load one page and that's not an exaggeration I wish it was never made. Adobe likes to make resource hungry stuff look at PhotoShop that's just how its been. I'll eat my words if they put flash on, but your barking up the wrong tree because Microsoft doesn't want it, and did you try and look up the site I mentioned in my last ramble? I find every show on there. And it works on the Xbox problem solved. I do believe flash is dead like the other guy is saying but plagued with issues is probably not true, slow running yes, some security issues yes but with major websites these are probably perfectly fine but really slow and cumbersome. I'm saying right now flash will not make it to Xbox, if Microsoft had their way it wouldn't even be on surface. But you can't have the tablet does everything unless it actually does everything. And other guy is right the flash on the surface is custom built by Microsoft and has nothing to do with adobe. The flash you see on surface pro is done by adobe for the desktop version of IE the metro version of IE for pro uses the same one RT does which is done by Microsoft that's why certain websites to this day still don't work on your metro browser that have flash and yes they are out there its because Microsoft doesn't support 100% of flash websites on the surface its more like 80%, if you have a pro and you use the IE desktop version it supports full flash done by adobe which is slow as balls. Yes the 2 version of IE are completely different. Mark my words, no flash will come to Xbox.
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