I don't want to repeat a press release, but quite a lot of interesting things happened to Silverlight today:
- H.264 support announced
- AAC support announced
- MP4 container support announced
As Scott Guthrie has written – this doesn't mean Microsoft is getting further from WMV. It just means – we give you the choice.
And a lot of interesting website starts SL based video delivery (sports fan are especially welcomed):
- French national public broadcaster – Catchup TV service
- Leading UK commercial TV network – Preview of SL-based “Catch up TV” service
- New Silverlight homepage “Viewer” – Includes new MSN Network SL video player
- Largest entertainment network in Europe – New Sl-based VoD Service
- Major Dutch broadcaster – SL Wimbledon coverage
- Leading French VoD service – Launching new Silverlight VoD service with DZ content navigation and playback
- L’EquipeTV (SI of France) sports service, powered by YaCast – Live and On-Demand Silverlight DRM
And a few words about our spons… sorry, about the NBC Olympics website, which in 17 days scored:
- 1.3 billion page views
- 50+ million unique visitors
- 70 million streams
- 10 million hours of video watched
- 35 million mobile page views
- Hundreds of highlights produced every day, which were delivered to every possible platform