Why do I use Adobe flash player for my foodcasts?

This is another question I received via email. I use Adobe flash player because it is the most widely available player on the internet. According to the company's website 98% of internet users already have the program. My audience is not just US based, I have lots of readers from Europe and North Africa. My French foodcasts and bilingual recipe posts are obviously for a francophone audience base. The internet is fairly new to Algeria and rapidly growing. I want to keep download times as painless as possible. I don't use youtube or google video hosting and choose to pay for hosting services because my foodcasts are copyrighted materials. For those of you who want a larger video or higher-definition video, I do have the technology for that. But that would mean uploading the videos in a less accessible format. Yes, I can link to two different video formats in my posts, but that involves paying considerably higher hosting fees (it adds up quickly and easily turn into hundreds of dollars per month) and more extra work than I have time for at the moment.

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