you can disable the audio if you click on "Music", in the previous version of the game there was no audio, because i listen my own music and i doubt it will fit in a strip poker game.
Well i think that you make all the error to compare an online game with an offline game.
you can have Gigas of datas with an offline game, and it is much more difficult to handle the bandwidth even if only 15 players are playing in the same time.
Right now there is already 30 megas of videos+ 5 megas of datas, and for a flash game it is really a lot.
Even if i could hire a girl to do the same thing as torquemada, for an online game it is for the moment not possible to manage easily the bandwidth of such game.
in 2006-2007, there was a lot of interactive videos (usually promotionnal content), in which you have to enter orders, now (tell me if i'm wrong because i like such content

) i think it is harder to find, because you need to keep the stuff online and it costs money.