If you try visiting through Skyfire, you get a message saying it's not supported.įrankly I had a tough time finding reasons to use Skyfire. Instead, the company wants you to pay a monthly subscription fee through the Hulu iOS app. Because of licensing terms, the company doesn't allow mobile devices to stream Hulu videos for free, as you could with a computer by visiting. But it's not Skyfire's fault that you can't view Hulu videos. But it doesn't matter so much in those cases, because there are already iOS apps for both TED Talks and CNN, which are capable of playing their videos.Īnother major exception is Hulu, whose videos are encoded in Flash. I tried playing a Flash video on CNN.com, and Skyfire didn't transcode it, either.

I loaded the TED Talks website, which is a gallery of Flash videos, and Skyfire didn't transcode the videos. There are some other Flash-dependent websites that work well on Skyfire, like the Daily Show and Colbert Report.īut the browser didn't play all Flash videos.

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