http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png 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 had51.9 million unique visitors (106% more than Athens and Torino combined) 1.3 billion page views 75.5 million video streams initiated (601% more than Athens and Torino combined) 9.9 million hours of video watched (equivalent of 1,126 years of video). More than 27 minutes per user average viewing time (compared to 3 minutes for sites using other streaming video technologies) And these great quotes from Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics:“NBC had plans to create the most ambitious online video event in history — more than 2,200 hours of Olympic coverage in 25 sports in less than 17 days – with 3,500 hours on demand. NBC needed to ensure the experience was versatile, stable, and — above all — engaging and entertaining.”NBC Sports chose Silverlight 2 because “with such a vast number of events and hours of live and on-demand video, we needed a scalable, flexible platform that would deliver an immersive and engaging experience.”Beyond the NBC in the USA, Silverlight was used for Olympics coverage in other countries, including:France (FranceTV) Netherlands (NOS) Russia (Sportbox.ru) Italy (RAI) Silverlight was a great coming-of-age story for Silverlight as we prepared to launch Silverlight 2. The“does Silverlight scale” and “will customers install it” questions have largely gone away in the last couple of months. en Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:37:20 GMT Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:37:20 GMT Rev9