Microsoft on Wednesday launched its Silverlight video player with a host of partners already in place. Included is CBS, which will use the technology on a site dedicated to the Emmy Awards broadcast ...

Microsoft officially launched its Silverlight video player on Wednesday with a host of partners already in place, including CBS, which will use the technology on a site dedicated to its Emmy Awards ...

Amazon is becoming the latest company to start moving beyond Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight to adopt native HTML5 web video. The company said today that it has begun to roll out a new HTML5 web ...

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As the programming for this year’s National Association of Broadcasters show unfolded, those of us in the online-video world couldn’t help but be disappointed at the dearth of pertinent content. For ...

LONDON and REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 4, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. and BSkyB announce that Microsoft Silverlight and PlayReady technologies are enabling Sky Player TV, Sky’s online TV service. Launched today, ...

Microsoft plans to push Silverlight to the embedded world with support for system-on-chip (SOC) devices, Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services 4, and Silverlight Media Framework 2.0. I'm ...

Microsoft's Silverlight 2 will endure the ultimate test over the next three weeks as millions of sports enthusiasts flood MSN and NBCOlympics.com to follow their favorite competitions among the 302 ...

The online DVD rental site is unable to pinpoint the cause of glitches plaguing users of its streaming service. Many users blame Microsoft. Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for ...

The crowded field of Mac OS X media players has another entrant: Eltima Software’s Elmedia Player. The free media player supports most popular Flash and video formats, including Microsoft ...

"This is a big step for Adobe, and one that will propel them further in the marketplace," says Christopher Levy, CEO and founder of BuyDRM and a longtime proponent of Windows Media DRM. "Studios and ...