After today, Adobe Media Player won't be available for download from Adobe's site. Adobe Media Player was a solution looking for a problem, so I'm not surprised to see that today will be the player's last day.
Sometimes great ideas are looking to solve a problem that does not exist. Adobe's Media Player falls into this category. At one time someone at Adobe must have thought, "Hey, if video in a Web page is great, why not create a Flash application using our own AIR technology so you can collect and manage your videos without the Web browser cluttering up the screen?"
Thus was born Adobe Media Player -- an AIR app that runs on Windows and Mac. But Media Player ran into a fundamental problem: most
