FEATURED VIDEO

SLIDE SHOWS
The chip giant adds new remote management, encryption and anti-theft tools baked right into next-gen Intel Core vPro processors for commercial desktops and notebooks.
The long-awaited iPad has arrived. But here are 12 other tablet devices that will take aim at Apple this year as the suddenly crowded tablet PC market heats up.
Going green was the rage of 2009, and the buzz in 2010 isn't letting up. Manufacturers are responding to increased demands from their white box makers for more eco-friendly components.
INSIDE CHANNELWEB

Major League Baseball Dumps Silverlight For Flash


By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb

1:41 PM EST Tue. Nov. 18, 2008
MLB.com, the Website for Major League Baseball, has apparently grown tired of dealing with the subpar video performance of Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia player, and has decided to switch to Adobe's Flash player.

On Tuesday, Adobe and Major League Baseball Advanced Media announced a two-year deal in which Flash will be the technology of choice for MLB.com's entire catalog of live and on-demand video programs, starting in 2009.

As part of the agreement, MLB.com will offer subscribers a downloadable Rich Internet Application (RIA) built on Adobe AIR, a cross-operating system runtime, to extend the baseball viewing experience to features outside the browser.

Major League Baseball Advanced Media has been using Silverlight to deliver game video streams of 1.2 megabits per second since April 2007. Things went smoothly until July of this year, when MLB.com subscribers began reporting choppy video performance when using Silverlight to view games.

Silverlight, a subset of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) system that powers Windows Vista, is Microsoft's attempt to trump Adobe's Flash technology by offering better-looking, more advanced display and interactive functionality, as well as superior tooling support.

The jilting of Silverlight comes at a time when Microsoft has been touting the recent successes of Silverlight 2, which include high-profile gigs as the multimedia technology for the Beijing Olympics and the Democratic National Convention.

 
Channelweb : Promofinder
FEATURED PROMOTIONS
Drive Backup 10 Small Business Server $299.00
Under cut-throat competition, small businesses face the ever-growing necessity of cutting overhead. With Drive Backup 10 SBS,...
Partition Manager for Virtual Desktops - FREE
Partition Manager 10 for Virtual Machines is a special version of our Linux/DOS bootable environment that contains fully func...
RELATED BLOG >>
Photo
Nomadesk, which provides technology that lets users build a virtual drive on their PC that can be accessed across the Internet, is just now building an SMB/SOHO channel, giving solution providers an opportunity to get in at the ground floor.
Media Kits | Reprints | Privacy Statement | Copyright © 2010 United Business Media LLC | Terms of Service
CRN Logo ChannelWeb Logo CRN Logo CRNTech Logo Vision Events XChange IPED
ADVERTISEMENT




CHANNEL SERVICES >>