Channel 9 - Entries tagged with sports Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with sports http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/sports Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/sports en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:09:30 GMT Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:09:30 GMT Rev9 10 1 25 Sunday Night (Silverlight!) Football This NFL football season, NBC will be hosting full HD (720p) live streaming video of all the Sunday Night Football games on their NBC Sports website. The video streams, powered by both Silverlight technology and IIS Smooth Streaming will use HTTP adaptive streaming technology for an amazing online experience. In addition to the main HD broadcast feed, fans will have access to four other feeds which you can switch back and forth between. Other features include picture-in-picture and DVR-like functionality which lets you pause, scroll back and forth, and “slo-mo” the live onscreen action. The website will also feature expert analysis, including fantasy tips and in-game chats, social networking and interactive chat from NBC Sports talent, and in-game studio updates from the NBC Sunday Night Football and Football Night in America teams.

For more information, check out NBCSports.com.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Sunday-Night-Silverlight-Football This NFL football season, NBC will be hosting full HD (720p) live streaming video of all the Sunday Night Football games on their NBC Sports website. The video streams, powered by both Silverlight technology and IIS Smooth Streaming will use HTTP adaptive streaming technology for an amazing online experience. In addition to the main HD broadcast feed, fans will have access to four other feeds which you can switch back and forth between. Other features include picture-in-picture and DVR-like functionality which lets you pause, scroll back and forth, and “slo-mo” the live onscreen action. The website will also feature expert analysis, including fantasy tips and in-game chats, social networking and interactive chat from NBC Sports talent, and in-game studio updates from the NBC Sunday Night Football and Football Night in America teams.For more information, check out NBCSports.com. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Sunday-Night-Silverlight-Football Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:58:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Sunday-Night-Silverlight-Football Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Sunday-Night-Silverlight-Football/RSS NFL Silverlight Video HD football sports This is Your NFL on Silverlight something for next year. Smiley ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/This-is-Your-NFL-on-Silverlight Starting September 10th, you'll be able to watch your Sunday Night Football streamed over the Internet in HD. I hope your big football watching TV has a VGA connector on it, because the Silverlight player for this experience will be awesome! For the first time, you get to pick all the angles with 5 cameras to pick from and multi-angle views, all flowing in IIS Smooth Streaming. The player will also have Slow-Motion, Instant Replay, the same DVR controls you're already used to at home, and chat integration. Beer not included, but we had to leave something for next year. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/This-is-Your-NFL-on-Silverlight Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:06:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/This-is-Your-NFL-on-Silverlight Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/This-is-Your-NFL-on-Silverlight/RSS NFL Silverlight sports Wimbledon Championships in live 720p One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog. This is going to be the biggest English language Live Smooth Streaming event so far, coming off the successful French International tennis tournament at Roland Garros. It’s amazing to think that this came together in just eight weeks, and amazing the amount of work that has gone into it. From the blog:

When we first started talking about streaming The Championships, Wimbledon, we were definitely excited, but knew it was going to take a village to make it possible. After agreeing to work with NBC Sports back in April of this year, we had only two weeks to figure out not only if we could pull it off in time, but who we needed in order to do so. Given that we only had eight weeks until The Championships started, you can only imagine how fast we had to put the pedal to the metal.

We already had a solid foundation to start from, with the successful broadcast of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on NBCOlympics.com, and Live at Wimbledon presented an opportunity to begin to take advantage of the features of Silverlight 3 as we prepare for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Games.

We also chose iStreamPlanet to not only encode all of the media content, but called upon their design prowess as well to create and deploy a custom Microsoft Silverlight-based media experience, which will leverage the latest Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Smooth Streaming technology. Additionally, iStreamPlanet’s digital asset management product, iStream Director will manage all the file-based transcoding for match replays and highlights.

So what does this all mean exactly? Well, some pretty cool features and functionalities all at the tips of your fingers, including (but certainly not limited to):

  • Live HD Smooth Streaming
  • Video-On-Demand HD and SD Smooth Streaming (which will be used for highlights and match replays)
  • Integrated Advertising
  • Instant Replay (in case you want to see Roger Federer’s forehand one more time), and
  • Deep-linking via RSS feed (which provides the ability to link to the media player from external sources and invoke playback of the desired media clip you’d like to watch).

And when we said this kind of project takes a village, we meant it. In addition to iStreamPlanet, we also had to call upon content delivery network (CDN) partner Akamai to provide the media delivery, Inlet Technologies to provide the encoding technology, NBC’s partner IMG who is managing the event logistics at Wimbledon, and their partner Perform Group, who is handling the encoding of the 4 WMV court feeds and providing archives of the matches.

Here’s the on-demand player:

And the live HD player:

As for the event itself, here’s some more details from Sports Media News about the planned experience:

Live at Wimbledon will offer live streaming of up to four concurrent courts, on-demand replays of the best matches from every day of The Championships, alternate camera angles for NBC Sports semifinal and final match coverage, daily video highlights, and Golden Moments from the Wimbledon archive, including an on-demand replay of the classic 2008 Gentlemen’s Finals between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, that NBC Sports’ John McEnroe said was the “greatest match we’ve ever seen.”

Live at Wimbledon will be available starting today, the first day of The Championships, Wimbledon with on-demand coverage. Live streaming of NBC Sports coverage and additional matches will begin on Saturday, June 27, concluding with the Ladies’ Final on Saturday, July 4 at 9 a.m. ET and the Gentlemen’s Final on Sunday, July 5 at 9 a.m. ET.

The Live at Wimbledon video experience will be powered by Microsoft Silverlight and offers the first implementation of Live Smooth Streaming for U.S.-based audiences. Silverlight and Live Smooth Streaming enable NBC Sports and Live at Wimbledon to deliver true high definition (HD)-quality streaming video for both live NBC Sports broadcast and on-demand coverage. Live at Wimbledon users will also be able to experience digital video recorder (DVR)-like controls, such as the ability to pause live action, skip back to drive their own instant replays, and join live broadcasts mid-event. Microsoft partnered with application service provider iStreamPlanet to build the Live at Wimbledon video player and handle content acquisition, encoding, and origin hosting with Akamai providing the delivery of the content.

“NBC Sports has a proud tradition of Wimbledon coverage, and we are even prouder to extend our coverage online with the all-new Live at Wimbledon,” said Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, NBC Sports & Olympics, Digital Media. “Tennis fans in the U.S. can now widely follow Wimbledon online both live and on-demand, and the quality of the Live at Wimbledon video player will only enhance their viewing experience.”

“Building on the success of the NBCOlympics.com broadcast of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, we’re excited to partner with NBC Sports once again to provide Silverlight and the unique capabilities of Live Smooth Streaming to power Live at Wimbledon,” said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform at Microsoft Corp. “Silverlight enables NBC Sports to provide Wimbledon fans true HD-quality video content and DVR-like features, dramatically improving the quality of the online viewing experience over previous years.”

For more information on Live at Wimbledon, tennis fans can go to NBCSports.com or Wimbledon.org. Tennis fans can also follow Live at Wimbledon on twitter.com/NBCWimbledon.

As always with these big sports events, there’s plenty of georestrictions going on. The direct link for the USA is:

http://wimbledonlive.nbcsports.com/

The options per country are listed here:

http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/interactive/video/live.html

It’s amazing to think we pulled this together in just two months. It’s a testament to the very hard work of our great teams inside Microsoft and some incredible partners.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/Wimbledon-Championships-in-live-720p One of the things distracting me from blogging lately has now been announced: the Wimbledon Championships are going to be live HD in Silverlight starting today (Saturday June 27th). Full details (once again) at the Silverlight Team Blog. This is going to be the biggest English language Live Smooth Streaming event so far, coming off the successful French International tennis tournament at Roland Garros. It’s amazing to think that this came together in just eight weeks, and amazing the amount of work that has gone into it. From the blog:When we first started talking about streaming The Championships, Wimbledon, we were definitely excited, but knew it was going to take a village to make it possible. After agreeing to work with NBC Sports back in April of this year, we had only two weeks to figure out not only if we could pull it off in time, but who we needed in order to do so. Given that we only had eight weeks until The Championships started, you can only imagine how fast we had to put the pedal to the metal. We already had a solid foundation to start from, with the successful broadcast of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on NBCOlympics.com, and Live at Wimbledon presented an opportunity to begin to take advantage of the features of Silverlight 3 as we prepare for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Games. We also chose iStreamPlanet to not only encode all of the media content, but called upon their design prowess as well to create and deploy a custom Microsoft Silverlight-based media experience, which will leverage the latest Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Smooth Streaming technology. Additionally, iStreamPlanet’s digital asset management product, iStream Director will manage all the file-based transcoding for match replays and highlights. So what does this all mean exactly? Well, some pretty cool features and functionalities all at the tips of your fingers, including (but certainly not limited to): Live HD Smooth Streaming Video-On-Demand HD and SD Smoot http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/Wimbledon-Championships-in-live-720p Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:33:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/Wimbledon-Championships-in-live-720p Ben Waggoner Ben Waggoner 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/benwagg/Wimbledon-Championships-in-live-720p/RSS IIS Silverlight Smooth Streaming sports NBC Universal NBCOlympics.com Inlet Watch Wimbledon 2009 Online in HD go to the site now and watch daily previews and highlights. But come Saturday, June 27th, the streaming will kick up to HD. So drop by this weekend and check out an example of Microsoft's Live Smooth Streaming, we'll let you know as more Smooth Streaming events are launched later this year.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Watch-Wimbledon-2009-Online-in-HD If you're a tennis fan, you'll be happy to know NBC Sports will be streaming a simulcast of the broadcast coverage of the championships this year -- in full 720p HD! You can go to the site now and watch daily previews and highlights. But come Saturday, June 27th, the streaming will kick up to HD. So drop by this weekend and check out an example of Microsoft's Live Smooth Streaming, we'll let you know as more Smooth Streaming events are launched later this year. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Watch-Wimbledon-2009-Online-in-HD Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:04:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Watch-Wimbledon-2009-Online-in-HD Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Watch-Wimbledon-2009-Online-in-HD/RSS Silverlight Silverlight Streaming sports Super Bowl Security Driven by Microsoft Surface Especially when in Tampa. But we have to cut them a break when you consider the magnitude of coordinating over 60 Federal, State, regional, local, and municipal bodies governing the only major sporting even that receives official National Security status.

How is that done? This year the hub of security will be focused around a Microsoft Surface computer. Along with partners, Microsoft has provided a way to display a Virtual Earth map of the event including any security incidents, resource allocation and tasks in real-time via the multi-touch table. With a simple gesture, authorities can zoon in and out of a 3D model of Tampa, and even communicate with remote devices and PCs.

Law enforcement can communicate through an integrated Microsoft Office Communications Server, police can IM between each other, voice chat over IP, video conference and even talk using PC-to-radio/walkie-talkie. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Super-Bowl-Security-Driven-by-Microsoft-Surface As you can imagine security at the Super Bowl is... tight, to say the least. Especially when in Tampa. But we have to cut them a break when you consider the magnitude of coordinating over 60 Federal, State, regional, local, and municipal bodies governing the only major sporting even that receives official National Security status. How is that done? This year the hub of security will be focused around a Microsoft Surface computer. Along with partners, Microsoft has provided a way to display a Virtual Earth map of the event including any security incidents, resource allocation and tasks in real-time via the multi-touch table. With a simple gesture, authorities can zoon in and out of a 3D model of Tampa, and even communicate with remote devices and PCs. Law enforcement can communicate through an integrated Microsoft Office Communications Server, police can IM between each other, voice chat over IP, video conference and even talk using PC-to-radio/walkie-talkie. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Super-Bowl-Security-Driven-by-Microsoft-Surface Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:29:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Super-Bowl-Security-Driven-by-Microsoft-Surface Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Super-Bowl-Security-Driven-by-Microsoft-Surface/RSS Microsoft Surface sports Stardock Releases MyColors just announced that their MyColors skinning suite is now available to the general public. For anyone interested in skinning Windows, running MyColors is going to be a lot of fun. With the application of a MyColors theme, you can completely transform your version of Windows - GUI, icons, gadgets, wallpaper, and all. The MyColors suite will offer many themes that appeal to sports fans - like themes from the NBA, NHL, and NCAA - but there are other themes available as well. For example, Ford and GM are offering themes featuring their vehicles, but Windows geeks will want to check out the "Diamond theme," a theme that is very much like Aero Diamond, one of the concepts floated around before the Vista team settled on Aero Glass. If you're already running Stardock's WindowBlinds or Object Desktop, you can still run MyColors without uninstalling those items. The Diamond theme is free, as is the MyColors app, but the other themes are available for purchase at $20 each. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Stardock-Releases-MyColors The team at WinCustomize has just announced that their MyColors skinning suite is now available to the general public. For anyone interested in skinning Windows, running MyColors is going to be a lot of fun. With the application of a MyColors theme, you can completely transform your version of Windows - GUI, icons, gadgets, wallpaper, and all. The MyColors suite will offer many themes that appeal to sports fans - like themes from the NBA, NHL, and NCAA - but there are other themes available as well. For example, Ford and GM are offering themes featuring their vehicles, but Windows geeks will want to check out the "Diamond theme," a theme that is very much like Aero Diamond, one of the concepts floated around before the Vista team settled on Aero Glass. If you're already running Stardock's WindowBlinds or Object Desktop, you can still run MyColors without uninstalling those items. The Diamond theme is free, as is the MyColors app, but the other themes are available for purchase at $20 each. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Stardock-Releases-MyColors Fri, 02 May 2008 03:23:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Stardock-Releases-MyColors Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Stardock-Releases-MyColors/RSS customizing Skinning themes Windows sports stardock LCD Golf Putter Adams DIXX Digital Instruction Putter is a good example. While you're head down, this golf putter analyzes and displays your swing path, impact position, face angle, swing tempo, and speed balance. It even gives you a pat on the back with a "NICE PUTT" if you hit the mark along with some red and green dot action. A twist grip gives you a UI control for the info screen, capturing data from up to 50 putts.

I don't even have a desire to play golf, but this might make me at least take up some mini-golf. Then again, at $399, I might stick with mini-golf on the Xbox 360. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/LCD-Golf-Putter Go ahead and mark me down as one of those guys who thinks anything can be made better by strapping an LCD screen to it. The Adams DIXX Digital Instruction Putter is a good example. While you're head down, this golf putter analyzes and displays your swing path, impact position, face angle, swing tempo, and speed balance. It even gives you a pat on the back with a "NICE PUTT" if you hit the mark along with some red and green dot action. A twist grip gives you a UI control for the info screen, capturing data from up to 50 putts. I don't even have a desire to play golf, but this might make me at least take up some mini-golf. Then again, at $399, I might stick with mini-golf on the Xbox 360. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/LCD-Golf-Putter Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:03:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/LCD-Golf-Putter Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/LCD-Golf-Putter/RSS sports NFL Sidebar Gadgets Attention sports fans! Here are 3 must-have Vista sidebar gadgets that any NFL fan must have:

1. The NFL News Gadget: This gadget can be configured to either show you the latest headlines for the entire league or you can change it to just show you the news about your favorite team.

2. The NFL Scores Gadget: This gadget shows you your team's current score for the ongoing game or it will display who they are playing next & when.

3. The Sports News Gadget: This gadget displays general sports news but can be customized to just show news from a specific sport like football, baseball, basketball, hockey, etc.

(Thanks to the InsideMicrosoft blog for this!)

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/NFL-Sidebar-Gadgets Attention sports fans! Here are 3 must-have Vista sidebar gadgets that any NFL fan must have: 1. The NFL News Gadget: This gadget can be configured to either show you the latest headlines for the entire league or you can change it to just show you the news about your favorite team.2. The NFL Scores Gadget: This gadget shows you your team's current score for the ongoing game or it will display who they are playing next & when.3. The Sports News Gadget: This gadget displays general sports news but can be customized to just show news from a specific sport like football, baseball, basketball, hockey, etc.(Thanks to the InsideMicrosoft blog for this!)  http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/NFL-Sidebar-Gadgets Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:05:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/NFL-Sidebar-Gadgets Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/NFL-Sidebar-Gadgets/RSS Gadgets NFL Windows Vista Sidebar sports Mt. Logan Tech Summit Begins meet up with them at the basecamp this weekend. It's been an amazing challenge for everyone involved.

We will be watching their progress during the month of May on Channel 10, with interviews, pictures, and phone calls as James and crew make the trek, connecting to schools along the way real-time video chats. Starting next week you can follow the climb with Live GPS tracking on a Windows Live Map. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Mt-Logan-Tech-Summit-Begins A dozen technology enthusiasts led by James Coleridge have left Vancouver International Airport to begin a 30-day summit of Mount Logan in the Yukon, checking 822 pounds of gear across 14 bags. I will be flying out in five hours to meet up with them at the basecamp this weekend. It's been an amazing challenge for everyone involved. We will be watching their progress during the month of May on Channel 10, with interviews, pictures, and phone calls as James and crew make the trek, connecting to schools along the way real-time video chats. Starting next week you can follow the climb with Live GPS tracking on a Windows Live Map. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Mt-Logan-Tech-Summit-Begins Fri, 04 May 2007 07:35:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Mt-Logan-Tech-Summit-Begins Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Mt-Logan-Tech-Summit-Begins/RSS Education sports Mt. Logan Ultimate Baseball Online! Ultimate Baseball Online.
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/Ultimate-Baseball-Online Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the WORLD'S FIRST massively multi-player online sports game. Thats right- real time action, real hitting, real slides and real catches...all being controlled by different people scattered across the globe. I had a chance to hit a few questions back and forth with Sean Mackay, event manager for UBO, about their latest release - version 7. Grab your hotdogs and get ready to hi-five with our neighboring continents- you have to check out and PLAY Ultimate Baseball Online. 409 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/Ultimate-Baseball-Online Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:20:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/Ultimate-Baseball-Online Laura Foy Laura Foy 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LauraFoy/Ultimate-Baseball-Online/RSS online video game baseball MMO sports