- cost of replacing flash with HTML 5 video player, requires testing, and a developer to provide
- DRM
- requires messaging current users about the change, providing fallback in case of non compatibility, user-support and tracking of failure
The current website works well enough with flash, and using flash does not impact traffic ( most of desktop users have flash ).
Business incentive to move to more modern technology compared to the cost ( replacing/ implementing/ support ).
Curious about this one. Do you mean using HTML5 might make it easier to copy the content? And using Flash prevents/makes it difficult to do that? Or is there more to it?
current HTML5 standard do not defined a DRM standard.
I would like to add that it is only a small part of the issue as the average user would not probably care but as you can see here ( http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html ), downloading video is one right-click away.
Youtube does some clever event interception to prevent this.
But again the cost of a developer to replace the existing system, re-encoding the videos ( sources might have been lost ), might be too high for a "normal" website to update their content.
- DRM
- requires messaging current users about the change, providing fallback in case of non compatibility, user-support and tracking of failure
The current website works well enough with flash, and using flash does not impact traffic ( most of desktop users have flash ). Business incentive to move to more modern technology compared to the cost ( replacing/ implementing/ support ).