Adobe has used the framework of the MAX 2010 event to present the new version of AIR, the runtime platform. AIR 2.5 and comes with many new features, including support for more devices: BlackBerry smartphones and tablets with Tablet OS, Android and IOS, but also TV comes to platform support for Samsung Smart TV.
The latter is becoming more important, Google TV is here and now nobody wants to be left out. AIR 2.5 is optimized to run on hardware that equips current TV and H.264 video will play in 1080p and in some cases there is possibility to display 2D graphics more than fluid, 200 FPS.
In the case of Adobe AIR desktop novelties are fewer but equally important, more CSS support, like @ font-face and shades, and hardware acceleration for H.264 video display (ie Windows only), thereby reproducing a video in 1080 only requires 19% CPU usage (compared to 65-70% above).
