mookblog: nextgen flash player demo in tokyo
“yesterday kevin lynch, macromedia’s chief software architect, demonstrated the next generation version of the flash player at the macromedia flash conference in tokyo, japan. the packed crowd was the lucky first public audience in the world to witness what’s coming next for flash.

only a few features were shown, but already you can see the monumental improvements being made. man, does the next player ever scream.

in the video below you’ll see:
-saffron, a new type-rendering engine
-dramatic performance improvements (a sluggish calendar app jumps from 14fps to 125fps)
-realtime bitmap effects (blur, dropshadow, colour matrix etc)
-realtime video alpha channel

killer!!!!”

Check out the video! Looks amazing! I cant wait to start making stuff with it.
Thanks Tom)