Adobe announced today a new project called “Open Screen Project” that aims to make Flash an ubiquitous platform for creating and running the content across a variety mediums, namely: TVs, computers, and mobile devices. The Open Screen Project is supported at launch by ARM, Cisco, Intel, Marvell, Motorola, MTV, NBC, Nokia, NTT Do Co Mo, Qualcomm, Sony Ericsson, and others. In order to accomplish this project, Adobe is removing all licensing fees that manufacturers had to pay to install the Flash Lite Player on their mobile handsets, opening the Flash Player API to let anyone to port the Flash Player onto any device, removing restrictions on the use of SWF and FLV formats so that any one can create custom players to run the format. Adobe is also publishing its Flash Cast protocol and the AMF protocol to allow new usages of data transfer services.

The Flash platform has been ever expanding the past two years as Flash developers can already now make desktop applications using AIR, web based applications using Flex, and mobile applications using Flash Lite. The expansion of these platforms onto new devices and set up boxes will make it easier for developers to create an application once only and then deploy it across a variety of mediums easily. Learn more about the Open Screen Project from Adobe website.