http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/tags/HD/default.aspxTags: HDen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2008/10/30/the-olympic-numbers-are-in.aspxWed, 29 Oct 2008 20:40:59 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9022656scbarnes0http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/comments/9022656.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9022656http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9022656<p>Ben just posted some interesting stats on our efforts with the NBC Olympics site:</p> <blockquote> <p>During the 17 days of the games, the site had</p> <ul> <li>51.9 million unique visitors (106% more than Athens and Torino combined) </li> <li>1.3 billion page views </li> <li>75.5 million video streams initiated (601% more than Athens and Torino combined) </li> <li>9.9 million hours of video watched (equivalent of 1,126 years of video). </li> <li>More than 27 minutes per user average viewing time (compared to 3 minutes for sites using other streaming video technologies) </li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>27minutes per user on average is quite a number actually.</p> <p>If you want to simulate some of the experience in terms of quality that folks had during the Olympics, you can do so via <a href="http://www.smoothHD.com" target="_blank">SmoothHD.com</a> (ie to get an understanding of the quality one is likely to have with Silverlight).</p> <p>Ben's post is here:</p> <p><a title="http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/Final-Olympics-numbers/" href="http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/Final-Olympics-numbers/">http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/Final-Olympics-numbers/</a></p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9022656" width="1" height="1">SilverlightHDhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2008/10/29/smoothhd-just-ownz.aspxWed, 29 Oct 2008 08:22:41 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9021661scbarnes0http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/comments/9021661.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9021661http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=9021661<p>We've got IIS7 Smooth Streaming in play and Akamai have put together a demo site called SmoothHD.com</p> <p>All I can say is &quot;wow&quot; in terms of quality. I always knew Silverlight could pull itself together for HD video online, but it's truly amazing to see IIS7 handling the workload here.</p> <p>Check it out.</p> <p><a title="http://www.smoothhd.com/" href="http://www.smoothhd.com/">http://www.smoothhd.com/</a></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/msmossyblog/WindowsLiveWriter/SmoothHDjustownz_13AB1/image_2.png"><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="307" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/msmossyblog/WindowsLiveWriter/SmoothHDjustownz_13AB1/image_thumb.png" width="450" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9021661" width="1" height="1">SilverlightHD