Martial Arts, Microsoft, and the Olympics 2008

[crushing]

I'm hoping that Microsoft using the Olympics to push Silverlight onto consumers will give us more opportunity to see such events as Judo, TKD, and wrestling. I'm always disappointed by the lack of televised coverage of these events.

Here are a couple article that have me hopeful that if I can't catch these events on TV, maybe I can at least catch them online.

Microsoft Sees Olympic Gold and Silverlight
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2246035,00.asp

Opinion: Delivering 3,600 hours of live and on-demand video for NBCOlympics.com is a big win and another step toward legitimacy in a Flash market.

Microsoft Silverlights the Olympic Torch
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/cont...microsoft_silverlights_the_olympic_torch.html

Make no mistake, Silverlight is all about broadcast video across multiple delivery channels. In March 2006, SMPTE (Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers) ratified the VC-1 specification, which comes from the Windows Media Video 9 codec. VC-1 essentially is a broadcast version of Windows Media Video.

http://universalsports.nbcsports.com/taekwondo
http://universalsports.nbcsports.com/judo
http://universalsports.nbcsports.com/wrestling

 

[Andrew Green]

I want to see more fencing as well

so:
http://universalsports.nbcsports.com/fencing

 

[Laurentkd]

Huh! I am totally clueless about this. I hope you will post more as it comes around- I would love to hear about it. I taped hours and hours of late night/early morning 2004 olympics only to zip through it all to find 2 or 3 minutes of TKD. So here's hoping!

 

[crushing]

I want to see more fencing as well

so:
http://universalsports.nbcsports.com/fencing

Oh yeah! I must have looked right past fencing when scanning the list of events. Thanks!

 

[FearlessFreep]

...Microsoft using the Olympics to push Silverlight onto consumers..

Ugh... just lost interest right there