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Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 announcement roundup
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 stuff relating to the media side of things.
Scott Guthrie's always-excellent blog post roundup:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/07/10/silverlight-3-released.aspx
Technical overview of media features:
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/overview/media/media-details.aspx#smooth
Expression Encoder 3 overview:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder_Overview.aspx
Extensive blog post about Expression Encoder 3 new features (it is awesome):
http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionencoder/archive/2009/07/10/9828866.aspx
Alas, the RC of that isn't available for download quite yet. Soon, I'm told.
And I had this interview on Streaming Media about the new media features:
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Wimbledon Championships in live 720p
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 to be the biggest English language Live Smooth Streaming event so far, coming off the successful French International tennis tournament at Roland Garros. It’s amazing to think that this came together in just eight weeks, and amazing the amount of work that has gone into it. From the blog: