Problem with YouTube Audio?
A few days ago, a friend of mine from school told me his YouTube audio stopped working shortly after downloading the newest version of Flash player. I went over to his house and tried numerous ways of fixing it, but nothing helped. I then downloaded the newest version of Flash onto my home PC, and I had the same problem. All other audio works great, it’s just the audio from Flash videos (such as YouTube) that stopped working. Please note that the VIDEO itself works, it’s only the audio. If you have a Windows OS (tested with Vista and XP), this fix should work well for you. There are three possible fixes, so try them all. Here they are;
Hulu Review
Hulu, just like YouTube, is a site that streams videos. It has one major difference though, and that is the fact that it hosts premium content, and is 100% legal. What I mean by premium content, is real full length episodes of TV shows. No joke folks, this is for real!
How do they do it?
It’s common sense that a service can’t just get out there, and legally offer free content, especially television shows. What they do is put a 10 second ad at the beginning and then about every 8 minutes (approximate, but it is actually dependent on the video length) they play a new ad. These ads are all videos, and are in the flash player itself. As for the layout, it is ad free apart from a little ad in the top right corner that shows the last sponsor that the player showed.
Has Sony Truly Won?
Yes, it is sadly true. In case you haven’t already heard it in the news, Sony’s Blu-ray has officially beaten Toshiba’s HD DVD. It was announced to the world on February 19, 2008. I am sincerely sorry to those of you who bought HD DVD players and discs. As I stated in an earlier post (Blu-ray vs. HD DVD), the best way to go would have been to just wait it out till there was an official winner. I thought that within a month or so there would be a true winner. It seems that it has happened much more quickly, and that I was a bit inaccurate.
Has a short-term winner truly won long-term?
In my opinion, Sony is not thinking about the future. They are being extremely naive because although the format war for Hi-Def Discs is over, video competition is not. There are a variety of things that not only now, but in the future will make discs in general useless. To better explain my theory, observe the fact the the new MacBook Air no longer has a disc drive. Now although this is just one examply, it is a beginning to what will be the standard in the future.