On 8-8-08 the 2008 Summer Olympic Games will officially kick off in Beijing, China. This event always amazes me in its unique ability to bring together people from all walks of life across the world. It is a great opportunity to see some extraordinary feats by amazing athletes. These Olympic games will be covered more extensively on the web than ever before.
We have signed an agreement to partner with NBC Universal to build a Silverlight 2.0 based web broadcast of the 2008 Summer Olympic games. This agreement also sets MSN as the official home of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
As a part of this, we will provide users with exclusive access to over 3000 hours of live and on-demand video content via Silverlight streaming. This means that viewers can access every minute of every event. Additionally, the amount of meta-data attached to each of the streams will be extensive and include links to player bios, medal counts, shortcuts to particular events (i.e. athlete x’s third long-jump attempt), maps of the Olympic facilities, pop-up overlays with real-time event alerts, headlines, video search capabilities, etc.
It is exciting to see Silverlight be the catalyst to turn “NBCOlympics.com on MSN” into a ground breaking site and video experience that will redefine sports content online and in some small way we can be part of this historic event.
Namaste!
Via the Geek in Disguise , I was turned onto the CES 2008 Video featuring Bill Gates . This is so much
That's great news ! It will be really a very rich content experience. As I had seen last month, in a Twenty-20 Cricket Tournament ICL providing Live feed using Silverlight Streaming.
Microsoft Silverlight and Cricket
http://vasudevg.blogspot.com/2007/12/microsoft-silverlight-and-cricket.html
Why not just use Flash! You guys crease me up. Knobs
Silverlight alle Olimpiadi
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 will debut on 2008 Olympics
Which probably means Silverlight 2.0 will RTM in at least H1 2008! Yay! Btw, so far, I've found media streamed using Silverlight to be the worst performer in the industry...no where do my videos stick so much than MSN Video, 10 or Microsoft.com. Also, Silverlight do not seem to cache the already downloaded/streamed part of the video. I even stopped watching Channel 9 when they switched to Silverlight. Also, like Flash it provides no way to download/save the video, view source, doesn't give as much flexibility as the WMP ActiveX control.
Silverlight at the Olympic games
Silverlight 2.0 e le olimpiadi
Gazduita pe MSN, proiectul olimpiadei de vara va fi (poate) cea mai sonora implementare pentru Silverlight
Big deal this technology was around for a long time. I don't what the fuss is all about?
Big deal! this technology was around for a long time. I don't what the fuss is all about?
I can't get Silverlight to work on my Mac laptop. I install it and nothing happens except it tells me to load a missing plugin.
So sad they aren't going with Flash.
Exiting! I love to see Silverlight getting more reach, so this is just fantastic! Hopefully the spread of the plugin reaches far bigger numbers through this, so my new projects based on Silverlight will get more reach 2008 - just awesome!
Seems like the site is already using Flash for the existing video content: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video