Ben Waggoner's Blog : media

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

Ben Waggoner — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 announcement roundup

Ben Waggoner — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

My Silverlight 3 preview up at StreamingMedia.com

Ben Waggoner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:11:00 GMT

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...(read more)

My Michael Jackson Player

Ben Waggoner — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:46:00 GMT

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....(read more)

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

Ben Waggoner — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:39:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Silverlight on Xbox 360 demo at Cannes

Ben Waggoner — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:33:00 GMT

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...(read more)