Hulu Launches New Player, Spurns HTML5 in Favor of Flash

May 14th, 2010

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While HTML5 might be the the future of the Web , Hulu says it isn’t ready to climb aboard just yet. Business Insider reports that Hulu announced (and later removed its blog post [Ed. Note. and now reposted it]) that it is sticking exclusively with Adobe’s Flash Player to play its content.

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