Built on Adobe Air Technology, the new Adobe Media Player 1.0 plays Flash and H.264 videos. Media Player is a desktop media application that will provide video playback of downloaded video or streaming video content. It lets you subscribe to TV shows, Video podcast and watch them on demand. Most of the TV shows will only be available when you are online, even though it’s a desktop application. Adobe Media player is more like Joost, the free online TV application, where you download and install the client program to your computer and use it to watch TV shows online. The application supports up to 1080p resolution and requires a 2.33 GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM for Windows. The Mac version requires 1.8GHz G5, 1GB RAM and Mac OS X 10.4.9. If you want to watch HD stuff, you will at least need 2GHz Core Duo processor and more than 1GB RAM. The problem with the Adobe Media Player is that it’s very resource hungry just like the Flash player. I tried the media player on a 2GHz Core 2 Duo Macbook with 2GB RAM and the application was using around 50% to 70% of the processing power. No other media application uses that much CPU for playing a SD video. The Adobe Media Player does not bring anything new to the table. If I wanted to watch streaming TV shows, there are already other sites such as Hulu that provide online TV entertainment. Also, being an iTunes fan, I'm more than happy with the way iTunes manages my video podcast library. So that being said, with the existing presence of online sites such as Hulu and podcast pioneer iTunes, there is not much to be excited about Adobe's new offering.