There’s a loud sound resonating around the internet.  The sound is coming from people cheering now that the new Flash player will bring HD Flash to netbooks.

Yes, you read that right.  If you’ve been crying yourself to sleep because you can’t watch Hulu or YouTube video you can officially stop.

According to Adobe’s release notes for the new 10.1 beta:

The Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release, expected in the first half of 2010, will be the last version to support Macintosh PowerPC-based G3 computers. Adobe will be discontinuing support of PowerPC-based G3 computers and will no longer provide security updates after the Flash Player 10.1 release. This unavailability is due to performance enhancements that cannot be supported on the older PowerPC architecture.

H.264 Video Hardware Acceleration Support
Flash Player 10.1 supports hardware decoding of H.264 video on Windows platforms when running with supported hardware. Use the following recommended hardware and driver combinations to experience hardware acceleration of H.264 videos in Flash Player 10.1. Unless otherwise noted, the following hardware will support H.264 hardware decoding with supported drivers under Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista (32/64-bit), and Windows 7 (32/64-bit).

Support gets widened for a host of integrated video cards including the Intel GMA 500.  To download the player and trying it for yourself hit up Adobe’s website.  I’ve downloaded it already and when I was watching Family Guy on Hulu it didn’t skip at all.  I didn’t have to load GMABooster, I didn’t have to turn the Super Hybrid Engine on.  I just watched.

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