Silverlight takes on your HD experience (Channel 9)

Silverlight takes on your HD experience

Posted: Aug 02, 2007 at 9:08 AM

By: Tina

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Ernie Booth stops by to show off some Silverlight version one stuff. Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plug in slated to come out some time this summer. We're going to take a look at some HD content with a demo that the Silverlight team worked on with Fox Movies. It shows off how they can deliver better content in a browser. It shows us a similar experience to a DVD. Pretty cool stuff. I'll let Ernie take if from here.

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kevo777

Aug 02, 2007 at 10:13 AM

The video download links are not working.
kevo777

Aug 02, 2007 at 10:13 AM

The video download links are not working.
Googleman81

Aug 02, 2007 at 11:22 AM

no download links? how is that possible? someone´s gonna get fired... just kidding. nice hd video player for sure, my nearly 4 year old laptop can actually handle hd videos sometimes. i got a 1920x1200 resolution and a 1.7 ghz processor and i dont know what the factors are, but some hd videos play just fine, some are slower with pictures than with sound and some dont run at all. oh, and i like jessica alba!
Googleman81

Aug 02, 2007 at 11:22 AM

no download links? how is that possible? someone´s gonna get fired... just kidding. nice hd video player for sure, my nearly 4 year old laptop can actually handle hd videos sometimes. i got a 1920x1200 resolution and a 1.7 ghz processor and i dont know what the factors are, but some hd videos play just fine, some are slower with pictures than with sound and some dont run at all. oh, and i like jessica alba!
Duncanma "yeah that's awful close, but that's not why I'm so hard done by"

Aug 02, 2007 at 1:15 PM

The video files should be working now, thanks for letting us know...
Eric Havir

Aug 07, 2007 at 9:55 AM

This is an awesome demo!
Eric Havir

Aug 07, 2007 at 9:55 AM

This is an awesome demo!