{"id":322,"date":"2007-09-13T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T07:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2007-09-13T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T07:54:25","slug":"livestation-uses-peer-to-peer-silverlight-for-live-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/322-livestation-uses-peer-to-peer-silverlight-for-live-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"LiveStation uses peer-to-peer, Silverlight for live TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

My final report from the UK Mix07 “Sneak peeks.” We were shown LiveStation<\/a>, a Silverlight application which uses peer-to-peer technology developed by Microsoft Research to show live TV in a desktop application. Desktop and Silverlight? Yes, the app we say uses browser hosting to transform Silverlight into a desktop runtime. This is not too good for the cross-platform aspect, though it would seem possible to do the same thing with say WebKit (Safari\u00a0as a component)\u00a0on the Mac.<\/p>\n

The broadcast quality was adequate for casual viewing but not great.\u00a0However the player does\u00a0look\u00a0hassle-free to operate. Unlike the BBC’s troublesome iPlayer<\/a>, this is for live TV rather than playback of previous broadcasts.\u00a0Still,\u00a0with both Silverlight and Flash supporting high quality video codecs, running cross-platform, and offering smooth installation with plenty of scope for interactivity, it looks like the BBC has some good options if it decides to re-examine its iPlayer technology.<\/p>\n

The company behind LiveStation is Skinkers<\/a>, which acquired peer-to-peer technology from Microsoft in exchange for a minority equity stake.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: livestation<\/a>, silverlight<\/a>, mixuk:07<\/a>, mix07<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, iplayer<\/a>, microsoft research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My final report from the UK Mix07 “Sneak peeks.” We were shown LiveStation, a Silverlight application which uses peer-to-peer technology developed by Microsoft Research to show live TV in a desktop application. Desktop and Silverlight? Yes, the app we say uses browser hosting to transform Silverlight into a desktop runtime. This is not too good … Continue reading LiveStation uses peer-to-peer, Silverlight for live TV<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,55,58,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-multimedia","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}