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[Kent Peacock]

On 03/25/10 20:12, William Yang wrote:
> Videos, especially Flash.  Because of YouTube, users want this more than
> they used to. 

We're well aware of this. The problem is that it's really difficult to 
pass Flash content uncompressed down to a thin client, since it's a 
proprietary format. The approach that pretty much all the thin client 
vendors have to use is to decompress and then recompress the content to 
send it down to the thin client, typically using JPEG. It also tends to 
be a bit of a CPU hog. I for one hope that Apple's refusal to support 
Flash on the iPhone (and presumably the iPad as well) will help other, 
open protocols catch up.

> I have heard reports that a demo of HP thin clients (which are probably not
> as thin) worked well on the video front.

With the one I've seen, they're way fat. The required client has to be 
about as powerful as a full-fledged PC, and it's a 1-1 mapping of client 
to server machine. So, it's a VERY expensive solution. And forget 
running it over a high latency, low bandwidth WAN...

Kent