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Live Beach Volleyball brought to you by Ooyala, IIS, and Silverlight
The AVP Nivea Tour Hermosa Beach Open volleyball tournament is being broadcast today with a new Microsoft Silverlight player by Ooyala. As with past AVP events, this tournament is again being delivered using IIS Smooth Streaming. The new Ooyala player, pictured below, includes four live streams that you can switch between instantly. Check out the tournament, the player, and the Smooth Streaming experience at http://bit.ly/avpTV.
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Upcoming Webcast on IIS Media Services
Please join me for an interactive webcast that provides an overview of current and upcoming features in IIS Media Services. You can join in the live session or view it on-demand. Here is the official abstract…
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Live Smooth Streaming infrastructure and advertising for the 2010 Olympics
Microsoft and its partners provided an infrastructure that helped to provide NBC, the Canadian television company (CTV), and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) with streaming content of the 2010 Winter Olympics. A new article titled NBC Online Video Monetization and Highlights Creation for the 2010 Winter Olympics describes the general IT architecture and tools used to support these three broadcasters, and offers specific details about how NBC inserted midstream ads in both the live video and video-on-demand (VOD) scenarios and created and delivered highlight clips.