A while ago I promised to build a Silverlight app in the first quarter, whilst that didn’t happen we’ve finally built our first ninemsn site using Silverlight, the National Nine News 6pm Bulletin.
From 6pm every night we’ll be live streaming the news for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane locations. You can choose to view the stream in either Silverlight or Windows Media Player (from those who can’t or won’t install the plug-in).
Along with the stream we’ve selected stories that match the bulletin so you can get more detailed information about the topic.
A lot of infrastructure changes have gone on in the background including upgrading Channel nine and Hostworks environment. We’ve also done a bit of testing the 640px wide screen works well at a bit rate the same as our standard 320px video player.
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Out of interest, from the soft-launch stats 55% of people have chosen the Silverlight player which is a great result for the technology considering our non-technical user base.
[...] Keen breaks the news. Ninemsn is now live streaming the 6pm news and, you guessed it, they’re offering Silverlight [...]
[...] Keen breaks the news. Ninemsn is now live streaming the 6pm news and, you guessed it, they’re offering Silverlight [...]