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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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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 Smooth Streaming User-Generated Content

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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Cool Smooth Streaming demo site from CDNetworks

May 01, 2009

Our friends at CDNetworks announced their adoption of Smooth Streaming last week. And now they’ve have made a very cool new Smooth Streaming demo site: http://www.nextcdn.com/Silverlight.htm . It builds on the SmoothHD and IIS.net demos with a very nice...

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NAB Day 1: Smooth Streaming released, Partners, 1080p in SL3, new VC-1

Apr 20, 2009

So, it's the end of Monday here in Las Vegas, and I've already got Thursday voice. I wish I could explain with a great Vegas story involving cigars and bourbon, but it's actually a nasty virus from my three year old that's been hammering me for a couple...

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NAB 2009 Ben Waggoner Compression Party and booth schedule

Apr 14, 2009

I was out sick last week, and I’m not emotionally prepared to admit that NAB is next week. But it shall be, and once again, I shall be there. Compressionist Party: Tuesday, April 21st, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm And, as many of you have emailed me to ask about...

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Live Smooth Streaming Beta, Inlet's encoder, and the 2010 Winter Olympics

Mar 19, 2009

Live Smooth Streaming Lots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one. First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript ), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth...

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Silverlight 3 Beta - What's New for Media

Mar 18, 2009

So, Silverlight 3 was released for public beta today, during Scott Guthrie’s keynote at MIX. There will be an on-demand version of it later on at Visitmix.com . There’s tons of info flowing around today, so I’m just going to focus on the media-related...

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