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Moving my blog to Channel 9

Nov 13, 2009

Hello all, Sorry so long without blogging. I've been in the process of getting moved over from On10.net to Channel 9 for reasons to tiresome to mention, and this little side project has been eating up a lot of my time. So, going forward, my official new...

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Tesco and Silverlight delivering the full disc experience without a disc

Sep 10, 2009

I'm here in Amsterdam with furious jetlag, but happy to finally be able to discuss one of big things I've been working on for a while. We've been working on using Silverlight to deliver full interactive movie experiences ala Blu-ray and DVD, liberated...

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Ben at IBC; come on by

Sep 08, 2009

For those mourning my relative blog interactivity and going to IBC , you can get your fill of the live Ben Waggoner 3D experience at the Microsoft both. I'll be at the booth at least several hours every day. I'll get final details up here before the show...

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Project Tuva: highly cool Silverlight player of Richard Feynman lectures

Aug 28, 2009

Sorry it's been so long without any blogging. Between my class at Stanford, finishing the second edition of my compression book , and a profoundly cool project that'll hopefully be announced soon, things have been beyond busy. But I've got a lot of topics...

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TIm Harader and John Bishop in Live HD web event Thur the 16th

Jul 14, 2009

So, Millimeter is hosting a live web event about Live Smooth Streaming, featuring the always-awesome John Bishop of Inlet and our own (also excellent) Tim Harader. With those two together, expect an hour of real-world experience and context with awesome...

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Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 announcement roundup

Jul 10, 2009

So, Silverlight 3 was released today, and the Expression Studio is available in a public release candidate, including the awesome Expression Encoder 2. I'll have a bunch more to say about it, of course, but first off let me just provide links to the important...

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My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.com

Jul 09, 2009

The newest in my "Silverlight Guru" interviews with Troy Dreier is up now. It offers a concise overview of some of the big features we have coming for Silverlight 3 and with our encoding infrastructure. http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11268...

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My Michael Jackson Player

Jul 07, 2009

The default player is only embedding at 848x wide. So I'll see if I've go the HTML-fu to embed big enough to get the full 1280x720.

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Michael Jackson Memorial in live HD Smooth Streaming July 7th 10am PDT

Jul 06, 2009

Just got some news: tomorrow's Michael Jackson memorial is going to be broadcast live in 720p Smooth Streaming by Sympatico / MSN inMusic . The feed is originating from Canada, but is not georestricted! I think this is the first globally available Live...

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Wimbledon Championships in live 720p

Jun 27, 2009

One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog . This is going...

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Silverlight on Xbox 360 demo at Cannes

Jun 25, 2009

Some of you have asked me about Scott Guthrie's twitter mention of the Xbox 360 Silverlight advertising demo at Cannes. So, yes, Silverlight 3 is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. We're mainly discussing this in the context of advertising at this...

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Tim Harader and friends on May 28th Live Streaming online workshop

May 25, 2009

Streaming Media has been doing a series of online workshops on various topics. They themselves are live streaming, with a chat backchannel which. It’s great to showcase the technology in itself like this. I myself have been guilty of “typing about moving...

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Project Starlight: Multicast Plug-in for Silverlight

May 11, 2009

It’s Streaming Media East this week. Alas, I’m racing towards a book deadline, and so am skipping the show for the first time in years. I miss it; it’s long been one my favorite shows of the year, and an extremely productive place to meet with customers...

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First Moonlight 2.0 Preview Out - with Smooth Streaming

May 07, 2009

Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview , dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming . Deep Zoom is also...

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First Moonlight 2.0 Preview Out – with Smooth Streaming