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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Tags: Silverlight 3H.264IISsilverlightExpression EncoderVC-1mediaNBC Universal
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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Tags: Smooth StreamingSilverlight 3H.264IISsilverlightExpression EncoderVC-1compressionmediaStreaming Media
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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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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Tags: Smooth StreamingIISsilverlightInletNBCOlympics.comNBC Universalsports
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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Tags: IISsilverlightScott Guthrieadvertisingmediaxbox 360
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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Tags: IISsilverlightmulticastEnterprisesilverlight 2Windows Media ServicescodeplexQumu
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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May 02, 2009
So, this is irrationally exciting for me; what's perhaps the first UGC (user-generated content) in Smooth Streaming. Two of our awesome evangelists, Tim Heuer and Arturo Toldeo were in New Zealand for WEB09 . They were invited to do a code-off with three...
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Tags: Smooth StreamingIISsilverlightExpression EncoderTim HeuerNigel ParkerArturo ToldeoUGC