HTML5 over Flash... I love it.

[Kaylia]

Best part for me is that you can load any part of the video (within 2 sec margin). In flash, it was much longer. Very annoying when I was listening a part over and over (to play the song on piano/guitar).

[Mayareira]

We told you guys

[Silenka]

I still don't see what's so great about streaming video in the first place. It's nice for clips and little 30-second amusing shit, but I'm not going to sit and watch 30+ minutes in anything but 1080p 5.1 anyway.

These days, it seems like almost everyone is fucking amazed with the decades-old technology of streaming and acts like hard drives are expensive.

I feel exactly the same, and I always felt like I was the only one. Most of my friends are on the streaming video boat 100% and I just don't get it. I like my anime and movies torrented in 720/1080p, not watching a shitty stream like crunchyroll gasp and wheeze as it's loading and buffering and buffering and... my connection doesn't do streaming very well anyway, but even if it did I wouldn't be using it for much. >.>

[SwampdonkeyPLD]

I use streaming to watch TV and episodes. I don't have cable and to lazy to get an antenna.

[Soa]

I stream a lot of sports games I can't get in my local area, so until they drastically drop prices for Sunday Ticket type packages there will always be a demand for streaming video.

[Kerberoz]

I use streaming to watch TV and episodes. I don't have cable and to lazy to get an antenna.

Download -> watch -> delete. It's not like a TV episode takes more than 15 mins even on the shittiest broadband.

[Swampthing]

As far as ad blocking in Chrome goes: ad blocking in Firefox isn't done natively, it's done with an extension. Chrome supports extensions and someone did make an adblock extension. The only difference I'm aware of is that the Chrome extension is newer and therefore not as fleshed out as the older, and more developed Firefox extension.

And Chrome doesn't need noscript because every Chrome tab is separately sandboxed and not allowed to touch your computer anyways.

I've been switching back and forth between Chrome and Firefox for over a year now. And the only Firefox feature I couldn't live without nor was supported by Chrome were keywords, which Chrome now has. So Chrome is back to being my default browser. :-p

[Antithesis]

We told you guys

No.

[SwampdonkeyPLD]

Download -> watch -> delete. It's not like a TV episode takes more than 15 mins even on the shittiest broadband.

True, but I still use streaming to watch sports.

[Zhais]

Few thoughts:

1) Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't HTML5 only good for video streaming? As far as interaction goes (e.g. flash games) it has no support. So it's far too premature to see if it will kill flash or not.

You can have games and such, but all it is javascript code. That already exists pre-html5. That also comes with the limitations and fallbacks of javascript along with it.