Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Shockwave Player is the web standard for powerful multimedia playback. Shockwave Player allows you to view interactive web content like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements from your web browser. You can enjoy multimedia games, learning applications, streaming audio, interactive animation and product demonstrations on the Web, using exciting new 3D technology.
Over 200 million web users have installed the Macromedia Shockwave Player. These people now have access to some of the best content the web has to offer including dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications. The Shockwave Player displays web content that has been created by Macromedia Director, including content made with previous versions and Director MX 2004.
Shockwave Player version 10.1 is the latest update of the Player. It includes fixes for issues identified since the release of Shockwave Player version 10.0, signed components for Microsoft Windows XP SP2 compatibility, changes to the installation process, which includes an offer to install the Yahoo Companion Toolbar for Windows Internet Explorer users, and an updated Flash Asset Xtra to support the use of Flash 8 authored SWF files.
The difference between the Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Players :
Flash and Shockwave Players are both free web Players from Adobe. Together, they bring you the best rich media content on the Intern
et. Each has a distinct purpose. Flash Player delivers fast loading front-end web applications, high-impact web site user interaction, interactive online advertising, and short to medium form animation.
Shockwave Player displays destination web content such as interactive multimedia product demos and training, e-merchandising applications, and rich-media multi-user games. Through Xtras, Shockwave Player is also extendable to playback custom-built applications.
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