Time Warner and NBC Tell Apple They Are Sticking With Flash Format
The New York Postreports that several large media companies - including Time Warner and NBC - have told Apple they will not be reformatting their video libraries away from Flash. Flash does not work on Apple's new iPad. The Post says the companies believe tablets that will read Flash are on the way and they don't want to undergo the expensive reformatting process.
Sources said several large media companies, including Time Warner and NBC Universal, told Apple they won't retool their extensive video libraries to accommodate the iPad, arguing that such a reformatting would be expensive and not worth it because Flash dominates the Web.
Though the iPad has been a huge hit, media companies are feeling emboldened in their rebuffing of Apple by the launch of rival touch-screen tablet devices, such as the ones coming from Dell Computer and Hewlett-Packard, sources said.
There should be plenty of Flash-enabled tablets available by the fourth quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2011. Some media companies have made videos available in non-Flash formats so they can be read by the iPad.
The New York Post 
