I dont know what to think about the Adobe announcement, will have to wait and see.
But as for the Microsoft announcement, all that is new is the name. The beta has been around since Feb, it was previously known as WPF/E and I talked about it here a little bit in the past. I will go do a small piece on what Silverlight means to videobloggers at this stage, I guess I should put it on the wiki. The simple explanation is that if you dont use wmv format video at all, theres no need to pay any attention to silverlight. If you do use wmv, then you can look forward to a much better browser-based wmv experience on PC and Mac, with the potential for the player to do the sorts of things that we are getting used to flash players being able to offer. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, WWWhatsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://gigaom.com/2007/04/15/another-fight-microsoft-vs-adobe/ > Another fight Microsoft vs. Adobe > > It's the season to rumble! Microsoft has just launched beta > of a new media technology called Silverlight that > essentially is going to compete with Adobe's Flash > technology. Adobe, meanwhile has introduced Adobe Media > Player, a standalone media player that can be perceived as a > competitor to Windows Media Player. Microsoft has signed up > MLB as a partner for Silverlight. Adobe is working with > eBay, the Wall Street Journal says. > > The new media player is an effort by Adobe to capture some > of the upside of the online video boom. It must "tweak their > melons" that a company that used their Flash technology, aka > YouTube got sold for $1.65 billion, and all they got was a > proverbial T-Shirt! > > "The media companies have a lot of questions about the other > technology providers are they becoming media companies or > becoming providers We are not a media company," Craig > Barberich, group product manager for Adobe Dynamic Media > Organization tells NewTeeVee. That's a dig at iTunes as > well, because AMP does mimic many of the video features of > Apple's digital media platform. Nevertheless, this promises > to be a long bloody fight, though Adobe has an advantage, > thanks to near omnipresence of Flash on all platforms. > > As an aside, this is a flashback moment from the '90s, when > competing technologies vied for consumer affection but > ending up causing more confusion. > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117668634225970835.html > http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/introducing-microsoft-silverlight.aspx > http://newteevee.com/2007/04/15/adobe-media-player/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > WWWhatsup NYC > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- >
