HD streaming? That's gotta be Stage6. DivX's Stage6 division must've teamed up with Microsoft to produce Silverlight. If it's their intent to include Silverlight in the 360 then wow.
Silverlight is based around VC-1 and proprietary codecs. Streaming is quite possible with H264, though I doubt MS would be too happy about it so it seems more like it would be VC-1 or a variant.
Roth, why is your text gray? Anyways, I thought Stage6 gave up to Hulu or was that Veoh (are they the same companies?). I used to love Stage6 cause it was all very HQ video. I am a big fan of hulu now too because the content is more mainstream than stage6 was. I hope they bring silverlight on XBOX and Zune, just imagine if we got content similar to Joe Cartoon? Rather than downloading a 10-20MB video to your zune you could just run a couple meg silverlight file.
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HD streaming? That's gotta be Stage6. DivX's Stage6 division must've teamed up with Microsoft to produce Silverlight. If it's their intent to include Silverlight in the 360 then wow.
// Roth
cause HD streaming isn't possible using any other codec? No H.264, or VC-1? hmmm...
Silverlight is based around VC-1 and proprietary codecs. Streaming is quite possible with H264, though I doubt MS would be too happy about it so it seems more like it would be VC-1 or a variant.
Roth, why is your text gray? Anyways, I thought Stage6 gave up to Hulu or was that Veoh (are they the same companies?). I used to love Stage6 cause it was all very HQ video. I am a big fan of hulu now too because the content is more mainstream than stage6 was. I hope they bring silverlight on XBOX and Zune, just imagine if we got content similar to Joe Cartoon? Rather than downloading a 10-20MB video to your zune you could just run a couple meg silverlight file.
Silverlight plays VC-1
Xbox 360 can play VC-1
Silverlight does not use H.264 and neither does netflix.
They are using VC-1 because it is cross compatible with their console and silverlight, which works on any OS and browser silverlight works on.