This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

In my own testing, the HTML5 player loads a bit faster than the Flash version. Thankfully, it doesn’t run into any annoying rebuffering issues as you jump around the video, a common problem with Vimeo ...

YouTube on Wednesday announced that the popular video-sharing Website will now support HTML5 for video playback. HTML5, for the uninitiated, is an in-development Web standard that aims to add various ...

JW Player, the independent video delivery and intelligence platform, says its HTML5 video player is the first to support the Open Measurement Interface Definition (OMID), the new industry standard for ...

Facebook is the latest company to ditch Flash-based video players in favor of HTML5, which is now the default for videos in the News Feed, on Pages, and in the Facebook embedded video player. One ...

Hulu's player just got a lot better, but it also comes with bad news for those hoping the company would offer an HTML5 option. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, ...