Can Streaming Flash video become the standard web media platform? It might for the sole reason that 99% of web browsers will play it. That eliminates the problem alot of viewers experience of which player to download or not having the current player version.
A few thoughts about this technology becoming a standard : other viewers are being imposed by the web site offering streaming. Web browser is one aspect OS's is another and you do have updates in flash too once in a while ...
@ the end of the day users have the last word : think of the various format, whether analogic or digital, we've seen in video and audio the last 20 years and others to come in the future.
So far, the ones that survived were the one's the majority of consumers liked, adopted and used
