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I’m the first one to admit that I know nothing about programming (and don’t care to, truth be known) and the competition amongst the various platforms for streaming video is of little interest to me except based on what I see on my screen.
By that criterion, my first experience last night with Microsoft’s Silverlight, while watching the convention (I don’t own a connected TV), was exceptional. Kicks Flash and Shockwave to the curb in terms of picture quality, bandwidth requirements and user experience.
I’m sure any number of self-styled experts will disagree. All I know is what I saw.
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Doug
August 28th, 2008
at 4:37am
I completely agree with you. I have had Silverlight 1 installed on all of my computers for the past several months but found myself not using it. Microsoft’s download site even begs you to use it. But Silverlight 2 is the version with all of the goodies as far as I’m concerned. I started using Silverlight 2 when I watched some of the Olympics on the Internet and have recently been using it so I can actually watch the DNC Convention rather than having a bunch of analysts say the same thing for hours and hours.
AMAZING program by Microsoft. It has been a while since I have said that. The best thing, something else that Microsoft should consider doing more, is that the plugin/program is free.
As far as free goes, they’d better learn that lesson if they’re going to compete in the 21st Century market. Adobe and the rest of the competition figured it out years ago.
I’m more or less in the same situation. I expect M$ to screw things up; when they don’t, I hardly know what to say. “Well done” seems to be appropriate in this case.
Tonight I’m trying Moonlight on Ubuntu. We’ll see how Barack looks in Linux. I’m betting he’ll look pretty damn good.
Dutt
August 28th, 2008
at 7:32am
Silverlight Video tutorials
http://msdotnetsupport.blogspot.com/2008/08/silverlight-video-tutorials.html
flammable_sheep
August 28th, 2008
at 9:07am
NBC used Silverlight to deliver live online coverage and past videos of Olympic events… ran smoothly for me. I don’t see why experts could disagree with the performane I was getting: high-quality, low-lag video with no lockups or hangs.
Me either, but some folks seem to enjoy iconoclasm, and others just seem to like spouting off. Of course, you could accuse bloggers of that, as well.