Microsoft Spills the Beans on Silverlight 4 Features
Microsoft Spills the Beans on Silverlight 4 Features
Posted 09/08/2009 at 3:35pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Microsoft today announced that it plans to showcase some new Silverlight features at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam (September 11–15). The new features, which include support for offline DRM and native multicast support, will be found in the next iteration of its Flash rival, Silverlight 4.
The support for offline DRM will be powered by the company’s PlayReady technology, allowing “movie studios and retailers to provide the same rich interactive experiences via digital copy and Internet distribution as consumers get with DVD or Blu-ray.”
It not only aims to level the playing field – in terms of user experience - between digitally distributed movies and those distributed on physical media, but also enhance the user experience even further through “network-delivered updates, special offers and live events.” Microsoft has not given any date for the release of Silverlight 4.
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nekollx
September 08, 2009 at 3:54pm
“network-delivered updates, special offers and live events.”
Translations:
We are putting live adz in yer moviez
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Coming soon to Lulu.com --Tokusatsu Heroes--
Five teenagers, one alien ghost, a robot, and the fate of the world.
1337Goose
September 08, 2009 at 7:27pm
I actually like the idea of network delivered updates, I think it's one of the major flaws in Flash Player. It's been mentioned in the podcast that Flash Player gets stale really fast.
~Goose
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