image thumb218 Adobe Grabs the Right to Stream Major Leagure Baseball Videos in Flash

Major League Baseball has decided to replace Microsoft’s Silverlight with Adobe’s Flash for all streaming videos on the MLB.com and MLB.tv for atleast two years starting from Jan 2009.

According to the Press Release from Adobe:

MLB.com streams live every Major League spring training, regular season and postseason game, more than 2,500 annually, via its out-of-market subscription product, which has seen more than 1.5 million total subscribers since its debut on Opening Day 2003. Since that time, fans have accessed more than 1.8 billion streams of live and on-demand multimedia offerings on MLB.com, representing nearly 200 million hours of participation. By the end of 2008, MLB.com will once again stream nearly 12,000 live video events, including Major League Baseball games and thousands of events for its various business partners.