It was a long time coming, but today was the day. Silverlight 2 was released to the web today! I'm in Shenzen, where it's after midnight, so I'll just list a few links. First, Scott Guthrie's blog has, as always, the best summary of what's new and interesting in Silverlight 2. Silverlight.net has…

People kept asking me about this on my just completed tour of Asia, so here’s a blog post that’s got the final numbers for the NBCOlympics.com video delivery with Silverlight. The data is from the Silverlight 2 Customer Evidence and Quote Sheet. During the 17 days of the games, the site had 51.9…

It's been discussed for a while, but the time is now - Netflix has just announced Silverlight 2 will power their streaming video service, which had been Windows-only until now. Silverlight 2 adds support for PlayReady DRM, so we now have the same DRM support on Mac and Windows. The service will be…

My Silverlight teammates Akshay Johar and Andre Michaud have built a new custom slider for use in Silverlight 2 media players. When you scrub the default slider in a MediaElement today, it generates a whole slew of valueChanged events, resulting in a huge number of seeks per second. This can…

Just a quick note - NetFlix is offering an open beta for their new Silverlight-based player.It's an opt-in, and once you opt-in, you need to use Silverlight on all your machines you use for "Watch Instantly." Friday, October 31, 2008Opt-in for the new Netflix movie playerHi, Brent here…

OverviewSo, I get involved in a ton of conversations with various internal and external customers about building Silverlight media players. The great thing about Silverlight is that it's deep, and provides lots of ways to build complex applications that include media playback. The flip side of that…

PDXUX.Net is hosting a Silverlight 2 launch party in Portland tonight, at North. Tim Heuer will be the featured presenter, and I’ll come in and do fifteen minutes or so of media demos. There will be ample time for mingling and Q&A as well. Sorry it’s such a last minute announce – we only just…

Now, this is a blog post! Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer for Netflix, has just put up a great blog post talking about their encoding workflow for their video streaming services. It’s full of awesomeness, but I wanted to excerpt the section describing their 1st gen, 2nd gen, and HD encoding…

Sorry it's taken so long, but we've now got the Custom Slider for Silverlight 2 Media Players up on MSDN. Unlike the snippits I included earlier, this is a full project that can be modified. It’s being made available under the Microsoft Public License. Code Gallery PageProject Download Enjoy!

Moonlight is a GPL'ed open source implementation of Silverlight, created by the Mono team at Novell. While it's a Novell project, we're helping them out, and I'm excited at the progress that they've made, and that we'll have a free software playback option for Silverlight. And thus, the beta 1 of…