Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Noticias externas — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:48:20 GMT

Two weeks ago, I went down to Hollywood to meet with a very exciting team who is creating a TV experience

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

scbarnes — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:36:45 GMT

*speechless*

Scott Barnes

RIA Evangelist

Microsoft.

Ice Cube Likes Silverlight So It's Good Enough For Me

TimWeb — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:39:35 GMT

Ice Cube Likes Silverlight So It's Good Enough For Me

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Mike Downey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:41:27 GMT

Hi -

Congratulations on building one of the first Silverlight sites.

Just wanted to let you know that all of the audio in your Silverlight video is out-of-synch with the video.

Also, in order to view the video I had to leave your site via a link out to microsoft.com, download a 4.7MB Silverlight update installer (Mac) to my desktop, hide my browser and find the DMG, double-click the DMG to unpack it, double-click the installer, click through the installer, and restart my browser - losing the page that I wanted to watch in the first place.

Flash Player updates through the old version of the Flash Player and doesn't require leaving the page or finding downloaded files (Mac, Windows, and Linux). The user just has to click to get the updated player. Just wanted to let you know.

Oh, and Flash Player 9.1 adds h.264 support and superior quality video that goes up to 1080p HD. VP6 already does this but h.264 newer and sexier. :)

Thanks,

Mike Downey | Adobe Systems | mdowney@adobe.com

http://www.adobe.com/flashon

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Michael S. Scherotter — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:34:52 GMT

Mike,

Thanks for the congratulations, but I should redirect it to the team at UVNTV.com. I’ve just been there to answer their questions and help them understand best practices around using Silverlight.

Your constructive criticism is great and I’ve already sent it on to the Silverlight team. I’ve not seen the sync issue with video, having watched it many times, but I’ve only seen it on my Windows Vista system. Luckily I’ve ordered a Macbook which should arrive on Friday. Then I can see if I see the sync problem as well and I am eager to reproduce the convoluted install experience that you had.

As far as I know, the plug-in install is typical of any initial plug-in install. The Silverlight plug-in has auto-updating built-in (you can switch it to manual-update by right-clicking on the plug-in) so once you have it installed you will get a similar updating experience to the Flash plug-in.

Thanks again and have a great Thanksgiving.

Michael

Encoding Formats for Silverlight Video

Synergist — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:31:53 GMT

As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video Camera

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

scbarnes — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:25:45 GMT

I tried to replicate the same experience MD had with both my MacBook Pro and iMac and *shrug* never came up?

MD: I think it's great Adobe are supporting Silverlight through installation, shows that we can all rise above this red team vs blue team and move forward. This is encouraging to see!

Scott Barnes

RIA Evangelist

Microsoft.

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Mike Downey — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:10:39 GMT

Hi, Scott -

I know you love to turn every discussion into "red vs. blue" to distract from the actual conversation, but it's just not the case here. It looks like a cool site - and I'm happy that it's working for UNTV.com. My description of the install process was 100% accurate. I did it from Firefox on Mac OS X 10.5 running the first final release of Silverlight (not a clean install, which I would expect to download a DMG for).

If I get some free time I'll do a screen capture and post it to my blog.

Go Red Team!

Regards,

Mike Downey | Adobe Systems | mdowney@adobe.com

http://www.adobe.com/flashon

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Michael S. Scherotter — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:44:09 GMT

Woah guys!

I don't want to have to watch this thread during my Thanksgiving break.

Mike, our team is already looking at the install experience that you reported; than you. I'd love to see the screen captures; you have my email if you want to send them. If you had the final release of Silverlight, you shouldn't have needed to download anything else. I'd love to follow up with you on this but I understand if you can't.

Scott,

Mike is helping us make Silverlight better by pointing out problems he is experiencing. Let's welcome that as a challenge to help the product team improve the Silverlight experience.

Thanks,

Michael

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

scbarnes — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:08:37 GMT

Folks,

Wasn't disputing Mike's agenda :) I just noticed it didn't replicate my way so i'm not sure what the deal is (ie tried in on both Macs so... *shrug* I'm interested in seeing it aswell).

Secondly, Red vs Blue team thing is more to do with how encouraging it is to see that Adobe staffers are installing Silverlight. Shows that we are all enjoying each others experiences.

Time to reduce the politics radar down a bit me thinks ;) can't even pass compliments now :)

Scott Barnes

RIA Evangelist

Microsoft.

Adding "Press Play" in Silverlight Media Player

Synergist — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:45:09 GMT

I just added an animated "Press Play" graphic to the Silverlight Media Player created with Expression

Silverlight on Mac Install Experience

Synergist — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:33:00 GMT

Mike Downey, Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe Systems, wrote a comment to my blog post about

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

timheuer — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:43:22 GMT

i don't know what it is about mac's, maybe it is the plugin architecture or something, but adobe's installer isn't any better really (see: http://screencast.com/t/aBSDScaTKEC). both installers required FF to be restarted (which follows the same concept of any other FF plugin downloaded actually). granted flash is a bit ubiquitous :-), but still, the base install experience is the same really. in fact, adobe required me to close my browser before even continuing. maybe someone who is knowledgeable with mac programming and this topic specifically could shet light on to why both adobe and microsoft had to use this route for the mac -- especially when it is clearly different for the x86 platforms.

Making TV on the Web

Noticias externas — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:53:22 GMT

I spent several years in the early 2000’s working on Microsoft’s overall TV strategy in line with our

.40s and Silverlight make the world go'round

Larry Larsen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:25:59 GMT

Taking the win for the last thing I expected to see in my Inbox this morning,

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Peter Strømberg — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:52:09 GMT

I get instructed to download the player, which then refuses to install as a newer version is already installed. Any ideas? (Windows XP)

Any reason why they use Flash for the rest of UVNTV?

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Michael S. Scherotter — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:45:59 GMT

Peter,

I haven't seen the installer issue but I'll look into it.

They are using Flash for the rest of the site because it does the job. All of the ad content they are getting is in Flash and it's not video. They decided to start using Silverlight for their video content; it's a first step.

Thanks,

Michael

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Spanky Winkerbean — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:42:49 GMT

Funny how you never see anyone from Microsoft Paranoically monitoring someone else's blog for hints of a competitive product.

Mike D., I'm nominating you for the "Confrontational Assmaster" award. Get a life and get a job, I'm sure Adobe's shareholders pay you to do something other than affront people on blogs. If you spent as much time perfecting your own product as you do bitching about others, you wouldn't have any competition to bitch to.

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Michael S. Scherotter — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:09:41 GMT

Spanky,

I don't think that Mike was monitoring my blog previously to me posting this video. By watching the traffic on the blog, I _do_ think that it has been circulated widely among the Rich Interactive Application space. Mike is an evangelist and to do his job he probably has competitive search RSS feeds set up to monitor what is being said about competitive products in the blogosphere. When Ice Cube makes a statement like "Flash is outa here!" and sees his team talking abou how easy it was to convert the site's video from Flash to Silverlight, that would obviously get Adobe's attention.

Michael

Ice Cube Promotes Silverlight

CodeJedi.NET — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:03:10 GMT

Just read a post by Michael Scherotter about http://uvntv.com - basically this is a new video for the

.40s and Silverlight make the world go'round

Larry Larsen — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:47:08 GMT

Taking the win for the last thing I expected to see in my Inbox this morning,

A first for the movie industry, a first for Silverlight

Crossbar — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:58:28 GMT

While it might be hard to believe that Silverlight has only been o n the market since September and it

A first for the movie industry, a first for Silverlight

Noticias externas — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:08:54 GMT

While it might be hard to believe that Silverlight has only been o n the market since September and it

A first for the movie industry, a first for Silverlight

Sample - News from the Microsoft Application Platform Team — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:44:37 GMT

While it might be hard to believe that Silverlight has only been on the market since September and it

USA Today reports on UVNTV.com

Synergist — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:35:24 GMT

Check out the article in today's USA Today (is that redundant?) about Ice Cube's UVNTV.com . It has been

Ice Cube on Silverlight

Backstage at MED — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:43:46 GMT

This is awesome! "Internet TV coming at you at UVN!" (with Silverlight). IceCube is the co-founder of

Ice Cube on Silverlight

Noticias externas — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:42:16 GMT

This is awesome! "Internet TV coming at you at UVN!" (with Silverlight). Ice Cube is the co

Why won't Silverlight work for Adobe Staffer Mike Downey?

Noticias externas — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:02:17 GMT

I'll cut to the chase on this one. Seem's Mike Downey at Adobe suffers from Silverlight related

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Jeremy Sharp — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:18:08 GMT

Michael... Nice, your living the dream...

What I Have in Common with Ice Cube

Synergist — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:56:26 GMT

I have been browsing through the Zune desktop software that I installed with my new Zune that I wanted

Ice Cube on Silverlight

Pocket.Info - Mobile 2.0 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:50:36 GMT

This is awesome! "Internet TV coming at you at UVN!" (with Silverlight). Ice Cube is the co

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Christopher Levy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:34:30 GMT

This should be a really good time. The guys from iStreamPlanet, Mark East, Billy Peters and Randy Levine are experts in the field and I expect this show to go really well.

Team SilverLight those Adobe folk are just trying to get your blood pressure up. :)

See you all there tonight. WHAT TIME DOES CUBE GO ON?

Synergist : Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Relationship Compatibility — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:03:02 GMT

Two weeks ago, I went down to Hollywood to meet with a very exciting team who is creating a TV experience on the web using Silverlight. Musician/Actor Ice Cube and his team talk about the web site in a short video that I recorded at Ice Cube's CubeVisio

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

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re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Computer Repair — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:10:45 GMT

Interesting post, thanks for a good read!

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Intel Burn Test — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:19:44 GMT

I really like the idea of combining several concepts into one. Hoping for more like this in the future.

re: Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

trojan.vundo.h — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:51:23 GMT

It is a major problem, glad to of found a solution. Thanks.