Sunday Night Football Case Study
Remember NBC Sunday Night Football? Microsoft has just released a detailed case study of the SNF project describing the partners, products, tools and workflow used to deliver the final solution. You...
View ArticleSmooth Streaming 3D concept previewed at NAB
NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show 2010 wrapped up yesterday in Las Vegas. Among the Silverlight and Smooth Streaming announcements and demos at this year’s NAB were: Silverlight...
View ArticleNow available: Expression Encoder 4, IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta, SSME 1.0,...
While most of the world is on a collective vacation watching the World Cup, media teams at Microsoft have been busy at work. And watching the World Cup. :) Released this month: Expression Studio 4,...
View ArticleNASCAR Racing in 3D on Your PC!
On July 3rd at 7:30 pm ET, you will be able to experience for the first time a live streaming event in 3D using just Silverlight and NVIDIA 3D Vision! We have teamed up with Turner Sports, NVIDIA and...
View ArticleIIS Media 4.0, SMF 2.3, RCE 1.0 SP1 and More
It’s been too long since my last post, so I thought I’d get warmed up and back into blogging form by posting something about recent releases on the Microsoft media platform. After PDC 2010 in November...
View ArticleIIS Media How-To Resources
If you are new to IIS Media Services and Smooth Streaming, IIS.net/media is the website for you. However, finding relevant technology and deployment information on IIS.net can be somewhat cumbersome...
View ArticleTranscoding 101 Roundtable, MIX 2011 and NAB 2011
A bit of shameless promotion: On Thursday, March 24th, I’ll be participating in a roundtable web event titled “Transcoding Methodology 101″ hosted by Streaming Media. Joining me will be Kevin Louden...
View ArticleSMF 2.5 with 3D video support coming soon
Bob Cowherd from Vertigo Software has put together a nice blog post about one of the cool new features going into SMF 2.5: stereoscopic 3D video support. We will ship SMF with a sample red-cyan...
View ArticleH2 2011 Product Update Roundup
It’s been a while since I updated the blog, so I will take this opportunity to bring everyone up to speed on the more recent Microsoft Media Platform product updates: November 9, 2011 Player Framework...
View ArticleSilverlight and Its Role In the Future of Microsoft Media
“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain* It’s been two months since version 5 of Microsoft Silverlight was released to the web. If you haven’t installed it already, you can...
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