Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21069537 en Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:45:09 EDT Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:45:09 EDT Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21087851 Maxo :
said by ablack6596 See Profile :

Probably because they're a business and want as many people as possible to actually be able to see their videos.
That's what I'm hoping. Going with a Windows only solution for Internet accessed content is not very smart in this new world where game consoles and cell phones are accessing the internet and are not running Windows.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21087851 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:34:15 EDT Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21074210 anon : The olympics were not restricted to Silverlight at all. There was a fallback experience, so the argument doesn't hold.

If I had to guess I'd say:
1. This decision was made long before the olympics (project funding, planning and then dev just don't happen in 2-3 weeks)

2. Probably some heavy pushing from Adobe on this. Other blog posts hint at that and the disappointment Adobe had in not being used for the Olympics

Pete]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21074210 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:38:22 EDT Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21071995 dvd536 :
said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

I wonder if there is some financial reason for the switch. The NFL on their own site uses Adobe Flash. Maybe NBC had to pay too much to MS to license Silverlight and got a deal from Adobe due to the NFL already using Flash.
Because people dont want to install more software just to view some crappy DRM laiden content streams.
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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

I wonder if there is some financial reason for the switch.
I'm sure that for the Olympics, Silverlight had the following advantages:

-publicity for MS (ie: you need to go install the thing and then the installed base of silverlight rises a bit since the Olympics are so popular)
-MS probably paid for a ton of equipment and possibly even had a hand in the networking side of things (who else would you trust to roll out a CDN for a new technology like this, especially when it's the Olypmics)?
-Since the network might have got hammered, restricting viewing to only those with Silverlight might have let them worry less about scaling things up. I'm sure the Silverlight "restriction" turned a large number of viewers away).
-Moving back to flash simply gives them more eyeballs, which they apparently really want.

As for Flash "failing", this is likely the result of a seasonal sport, continued speed increases at the consumer's end, and generally poor capacity planning. I used to have a friend at MLB.com, and he noted that each new season was always a bit of a surprise.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21069590 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:44:17 EDT Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21069537 jarthur31 : I couldn't even find the online streaming games. The archives were incomplete. For example, I wanted to watch the Men's Basketball championship round. All it showed me was the 1st quarter. I met all hardware and speed requirements and it didn't play smoothly for me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21069537 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:22:39 EDT Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21069511 ablack6596 : Probably because they're a business and want as many people as possible to actually be able to see their videos.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21069511 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:05:12 EDT Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21068870 Smith6612 : SilverLight is not in beta anymore...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21068870 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:49:47 EDT Re: Siverlight worked great during the Olympics; why switch? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21068703 TKJunkMail :
said by gaforces See Profile :

Perhaps they didnt like using beta software and chose to stick with production software which has less problems?
If that was their reasoning, it didn't work. They had more problems with the NFL streaming using Flash than they did with the Olympic streaming using Silverlight.
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