David Sayed's Microsoft Blog

Mostly about Microsoft media technologies.

This article is now of historical interest only since the SLS service is no longer available. In...

Date: 01/08/2010

Thanks go to Tim Heuer for pointing this out (and providing this workaround). In the posts on...

Date: 01/08/2010

In this post, I will describe how to use Windows Live Writer to embed a Silverlight video into a...

Date: 01/07/2010

In this post, I will describe how to use Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 to encode and publish a...

Date: 01/07/2010

In this post, I assume that you have already provisioned a Windows Azure account and have an active...

Date: 01/07/2010

This is going to be a series of long posts. With Silverlight Streaming (silverlight.live.com) being...

Date: 01/07/2010

After a short break, I’m pleased to offer up the latest Silverlight podcast. This time, the topic is...

Date: 01/06/2010

On Thursday at 6pm Pacific Time, you’re invited to see Alicia Keys perform live! Watch the exclusive...

Date: 01/06/2010

I recently started to play with JSON. One of the immediate issues I found was reading the results...

Date: 12/02/2009

This week, I'm at Streaming Media West in San Jose, California. Seeing the sun, blue skies and...

Date: 11/16/2009

Updated 10/14/2009: Player is now live on the front page of the France 24 website. Changed the link...

Date: 10/09/2009

We’ve been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards. There...

Date: 10/01/2009

Want to know more about Smooth Streaming in the real world? Join us on Thursday October 15th at 11am...

Date: 10/01/2009

Groupe CANAL, the premiere pay television channel in France with 10.6 million subscribers, is...

Date: 09/30/2009

Tech-Ed Japan 2009 has embraced Smooth Streaming. You can watch the keynote (in Japanese) for a few...

Date: 08/26/2009

Uncompressed (or lightly compressed) video needs lots of disk space. More than that, if you’re...

Date: 07/22/2009

We're doing more and more video work in my team, the latest being some of the videos used for our...

Date: 07/18/2009

A nice demo of SD content using Smooth Streaming: https://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/hd/raitvhd.html?v=1

Date: 06/25/2009

MSN Brazil is using DeepZoomPix on their site show off pictures from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival....

Date: 05/19/2009

CDNetworks, a Korea-based CDN has introduced support for Smooth Streaming and it looks great! You...

Date: 04/28/2009

Today, we unveiled an exciting technology demo called DeepZoomPix. It enables you to experience a...

Date: 04/16/2009

CTV, Canada’s largest private broadcaster, has some great high definition content on their HD Beta...

Date: 03/19/2009

Colleagues in the field highlighted a couple of nice broadcast news sites outside the United States...

Date: 03/11/2009

Expression Encoder Express is a free version of Expression Encoder. If you have the full version and...

Date: 12/12/2008

Ever wondered how Netflix encodes their video material for their streaming service? This blog post...

Date: 11/19/2008

I love Netflix and I love their Watch Instantly feature, which enabled me to discover and catch up...

Date: 11/03/2008

Geotate is a very interesting British company who were showing their automatic geotagging technology...

Date: 10/13/2008

  At Photokina, we were lucky enough to have a local Expression Media fan who spent pretty much...

Date: 10/13/2008

I spent some time with the Mac Office guys at Photokina who were showing the Special Media Edition...

Date: 10/13/2008

Expression Media 2 SP1 is now available. If you are a Windows user and have opted to receive updates...

Date: 10/06/2008

Yesterday was the first day of Photokina. I spent much of the day on the Microsoft stand talking to...

Date: 09/24/2008

This week, I'm at Photokina with a large number of Microsoft people. If you're around, come and see...

Date: 09/22/2008

Some of the Expression Media team will be in the UK the week of September 15th just before...

Date: 08/12/2008

Expression Media will be represented at Photokina in Cologne, Germany from September 23rd to 28th....

Date: 08/04/2008

Some of the Expression Media team did an impromptu lunch session at the Microsoft ProPhoto Summit...

Date: 07/11/2008

Ziv Gilat's Eye-Fi demo at the ProPhoto Summit today was awesome. For those who don't know, Eye-Fi...

Date: 07/10/2008

Here's a hot new feature that will enhance how we do cuts editing in Expression Encoder. We're...

Date: 07/09/2008

  Expression Media 2 includes support for publishing your catalogs as Silverlight galleries....

Date: 07/03/2008

There have been some questions in the Expression forums about product keys and apparent confusion as...

Date: 06/24/2008

Now that Expression Encoder 2 has been released, the team is hard at work on the next version of the...

Date: 06/17/2008

Having posted a method for compressing AVCHD directly in Expression Encoder 2, I thought I would see...

Date: 06/02/2008

I've been chatting with Scott Stanfield, CEO of Vertigo about AVCHD camcorders and we discussed how...

Date: 05/30/2008

Expression Media 2 features support for creating Silverlight web galleries, which means interactive...

Date: 05/22/2008

Did you know that students can get Expression products for free? As part of Microsoft's family of...

Date: 05/12/2008

    If you shoot HD video using a tape-based camera, you're probably shooting HDV....

Date: 04/30/2008

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