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Looks like the Comedy network has made the switch to Silverlight Video

SYS-CON, one of the first streaming video sites on the internet, plans to move from Adobe Flash video to Silverlight.

We are more confident to make the switch and convinced to go with a superior Microsoft technology at this time.

Kevin Hoffman writes that he caught a reporter on an entertainment show going on about the Emmy Awards using Silverlight as their official streaming platform.

He says the reporter then went on to give a 30 second canned speech about the benefits of Silverlight rich video streaming technology.

Kevin then goes on a bit of a tare about the ethics of Microsoft buying their way into the Emmys.

I feel insulted and demeaned that Microsoft would flat-out buy their way into this situation.

How is this any different than P-Ditty drinking a Pepsi on camera? Welcome to marketing in the 21’st century Kevin.

Scott Holden posted a demonstration video of Silverlight for Windows Mobile. Although it’s just a prototype of MLB mobile with video, it is a nice peek at things to come.

Microsoft bought an island in Second Life, they’ve named it Visual Studio island.

Several Weeks ago Brad Abrams hosted a presentation about Silverlight for MAC from this virtual world. He has since made the Power Point slides and media available for download.

Don’t miss the videos showing Silverlight Media on MAC, and Silverlight RIA’s on MAC.

JavascriptGuy posts a video showing off the power of WPF 3D and video.

Microsoft launched a new Windows Forms and WPF Community site. There’s lots of good stuff there, Silverlight and WPF video tutorials, control galleries, downloadable WPF samples, forums and more. Worth a look.

This week MLB.com rolled out a Silverlight video player on some of their article pages.

I think it’s great that MLB adopted Silverlight so early after the RC1 player release. But I have to say that the implementation seems a little shotty to me. I had issues with the controls hanging when I was trying to Pause/Play the video and dragging the scrub bar is glitchy.

It also looks like they used bitmapped graphics on the control buttons which aren’t scaling well. Try comparing the article player to the full player to see what I mean.

I know, I know,.. it says “Beta” in the upper right corner and I do applaud MLB for adopting Silverlight. I just know they can do better, and I wouldn’t want anyone to think this is the best Silverlight has to offer. Hopefully they’ll get it tightened up soon.

Via - Mike Harsh’s Blog

Steve Clayton of Geek In Disguise has put together a nice collection of videos from the Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference (WPC).

Topics include:

• Microsoft Surface
• Live Labs Photosynth (and SeaDragon)
• Windows Live for Windows Mobile
• Microsoft RoundTable
• Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM
• Microsoft Silverlight
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Automotive

This is a demo of the new product LiveStation, a live television broadcasting application built on Silverlight and currently in public beta. (still waiting on my invite)

There have been a lot of articles comparing LiveStation to Joost, which is not exactly apples to apples. The big differentiator for LiveStation is that it is peer-to-peer and is intended for live broadcasting, although it is also capable of delivering time shifted content as well.

This really shows off the power and flexibility of SilverLight and WPF for presentation. Once it goes 1.0 there are plans to port it to OSX and Windows Mobile.

LiveStation is a Microsoft Research project, and was built in partnership with the London company Skinkers.