NBC Silverlight Install End User Experience
I fired up my iMac this morning and ran over to www.NBCOlympics.com full of excitement to see the video experience that I've heard Microsoft and NBC talking about for the past few months.
I've never installed Silverlight on a Mac before, and I was intentionally not installing anything, so I could get a feel for the end user experience.
At the last minute, I decided to do a lazy mans recording with my Sony pocket cam, just pointed at the screen, so the clarity isn't that great, but you get the idea, and the experience I was trying to capture.
Check out the video, which I've uploaded to my Flickr account. The whole process was less than 90 seconds, which is great, because Flickr video maximum time in 90 seconds. Lucky me.
Once the vide player / Silverlight engine was installed, I was amazed at the clarity of the streaming video. it's amazing. In fact the streaming video footage, it better quality than the commercials I saw, which were all pretty grainy. Probably due to the way they were originally encoded.
I'm excited to watch the Olympics online this year, because I'll get to watch what I want, when I want, with much MUCH more coverage. I won't be locked into what scheduled in TV guide.
I wonder if the Archives will stay online after the Olympics are over?