Microsoft to bring Silverlight platform to set-top boxes
By siliconindia   |   Friday, 09 April 2010, 15:15 IST   |    1 Comments
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Microsoft to bring Silverlight platform to set-top boxes
Washington: Software giant Microsoft announced that it will launch new products and initiatives at the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show next week in Las Vegas. The company said it is working with System-on-Chip (SOC) partners Intel and Broadcom to deliver support for reference designs that will provide complete Silverlight platform to set-top boxes, connected TVs, Blu-ray Disc players and other devices. Microsoft also unveiled details about Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services 4 and announced the upcoming release of Silverlight Media Framework 2.0. The latest version allows providers and broadcasters to encode content once and deliver it to Silverlight- and non-Silverlight-enabled devices. Version 4 also supports smooth multicast streaming, along with third-party encoding products and Microsoft Expression Encoder. Silverlight Media Framework 2.0 is claimed to allow users to distribute media content with almost no coding. The framework is essentially an open-source version of the player used by NBC, NRK and CTV for the recent Olympics coverage. "Our vision is to bring Silverlight to every screen, and as we continue to expand the capabilities and resources for Silverlight and IIS Media Services," said Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of the .NET Developer Platform at Microsoft.

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