The guitar hero site is now using Silverlight !!!

The Guitar Hero Event - is an annual guitarist competition put on by Guitar Player Magazine of the Music Player Network. This event features the top ten finalists competing for the sole title of Guitar Player Magazine’s “Guitar Hero” – which also comes with a heap of musical equipment and a featured story in Guitar Player Magazine as the winning prize. The finalists were chosen after the staff of Guitar Player listened to thousands of entries posted on SonicBids.com.

The celebrity judges include guitar legend Joe Satriani, session great and Toto axeman Steve Lukather, former Poison and Mr. Big guitarist Ritchie Kotzen, ‘Rockstar: SuperNova’ house band guitar-slinger Rafael Moreira, and the fabulous Shredmistress Rynata.

The Majority of our focus for this event is the adoption of Silverlight as the web media format the Guitar Hero Simulcast, reaching an estimated 500,000 music enthusiasts all over the world! Guitar Player TV has previously been webcasting entirely in Flash, and our involvement in this event has spurred larger discussions between Music Player Network and Microsoft regarding a more permanent use of Silverlight as the standard web media format for all future GPTV simulcasts and regular programming.