I'm not sure where you heard that Flash Player is dying but based on everything I have read, Adobe has plans to keep Flash Player going with new updates for the foreseeable future. Adobe has a roadmap of Flash Player and Air updates available at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashpla...s/roadmap.html.

What really says that Flash Player is sticking around is the following statement from the roadmap.

Flash Player "Next"

While Adobe is working on releases for 2012, we are also modernizing the Flash runtime's code base in order to ensure that the Flash runtimes meet the needs of developers over the next five to 10 years. This work is referred to in this document as Flash Player and ActionScript "Next".

This work includes, but is not limited to, the following:
•Refactoring and modernizing the current core Flash runtime code base
•Work on the ActionScript virtual machine
•Updates to the ActionScript language

The primary goal of this work is to provide a modern implementation of the core Flash runtimes and the ActionScript virtual machine in order to significantly improve script execution performance and provide a foundation on which Flash can move forward over the next decade.

Currently, initial Flash runtime releases that result from this work are planned for 2013.

Adobe plans to add support for hardware-accelerated StageVideo in Adobe AIR in a release during 2013.