NBC Sports has announced it will be moving all its HD video-streaming feeds to the latest build of Microsoft's Silverlight, including the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics.
The broadcaster will use Silverlight 3 across all its HD sports broadcasts, and committed to Microsoft after testing "many different technologies", says Perkins Miller, senior vice president of Digital Media at NBC Sports, via VB.
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Originally posted by Lothros: So anyone using Linux (or just doesn't like having M$ Bloat-ware) is left out in the cold?
The Silverlight plug-in is made for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux...and it's surprisingly not as bloated as other M$ stuff. Musta been one of those products/technologies they bought out another company for! ;-)
"The Silverlight plug-in is made for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux"
No, it is not. There is no linux "silverlight". There is "moonlight", but that only supports Silverlight 1.0 stuff (already ancient history, there is no chance NBC will be using this).
I guess it's a numbers game...how many people have no TV, run linux (and only linux), and can handle 35 hours of tennis?
Originally posted by KillerBug: "The Silverlight plug-in is made for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux"
No, it is not. There is no linux "silverlight". There is "moonlight", but that only supports Silverlight 1.0 stuff (already ancient history, there is no chance NBC will be using this).
I guess it's a numbers game...how many people have no TV, run linux (and only linux), and can handle 35 hours of tennis?
Hmmm...that's odd since M$ says it's supported on Linux on their website, though maybe I didn't look at the particular details. My bad, if so!
UPDATE: Yeah, after looking, it looks like Moonlight 2 is almost complete to support Silverlight 2.0. Figures M$ would misrepresent 3rd party ability to create a compatible Linux plug-in as supported BY THEM (trying to sound Linux-friendly).
