Broadcom is onboard, Sigma Designs is onboard, ARM is onboard and their partners Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments are all onbaord to deliver your components, your galleries, your XML websites and your awesome preloaders to TV sets and consumer devices everywhere. The good news is that all these devices run on Intel chips and Intel has been working closely with Adobe to make this happen. The bad news, they’re all going to be running Flash-Lite to start. But never fear, Intel has something special up their sleeve.

The big CES show in Las Vegas isn’t usually the event of the year for us new-age internet types, unless of course you’re a Mac. Apple has owned CES for the better part of the decade debuting the iPod, iPod Video, macbook air and the iPhone while controlling a good majority of the media attention. This weekend at CES, however, crowns a new king for the worldwide generation (coined!), Adobe!

Adobe is poised to announce this weekend that Intel, in association with the companies just mentioned, is making a big play to support AIR 1.5 and Flash 10 in consumer electronics and TV’s by the end of the year. Drop dead Bradgelina, this is a match made in heaven! The Flash Platform, which already holds the crown for online video, is the ideal genius to bridge gap between the web and TV to deliver digital experiences to the worldwide generation. YouTube, Hulu, Sling & Joost already use Flash to deliver their own version of online TV and my guess is by the time I’m done writing this post another twenty or so startups will launch their own interactive online TV experience. I haven’t even begun to explore what this means for Justin.tv and UStream!

This was all made possible last year when Adobe announced their OpenSource Initiative removing the barriers for third parties to embed the Flash runtime in consumer devices. As reported by Trading Markets “The Initiative has 20 major industry partners and is dedicated to enable Web content, standalone applications and full Web browsing across televisions, set-top boxes, mobile devices and other consumer electronics that take advantage of Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash capabilities.”

If you’re still on the Fence about what platform to use when developing your web content hopefully the following will put an end to your misery and at the same time end the overblown Flash vs. Silverlight debate. “As online video viewing shifts from the PC to the TV, the number of worldwide viewers will reach nearly one billion by 2013, according to a study by ABI Research.”

Enough said. It’s a Flash World Baby!