Comments on: Adobe Wins Gold in Online Olympics

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By: eelcoh

eelcoh — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:02:12 +0000

Dutch public broadcasting company NOS is using Silverlight. They also used that for the European Championships (Soccer) and the Tour de France.

By: informed observer

informed observer — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:00:39 +0000

Adobe Flash is a monopoly? And Microsoft is now a friendly competitor, bringing out the best the market?

Whose world are you living on? Have we forgotten so quickly that MSFT was proven a monopoly, in the most godawful places to do it, the US and the EU courts…and that MSFT *still* isn’t in compliance with the EU?

If you think Adobe has a monopoly, think again.

By: GookLuckChina

GookLuckChina — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:28:19 +0000

CCTV.com
Live part: p2p on WMV in Flex UI. you need to download a p2p plug-in. In China, no companies like Microsoft and Adobe could commit to using Server live streaming method to afford so critical situation.
Vod part: from 8.6 to 12.31, CCTV will switch all of videos which owned by IOC and CCTV.com from http progressive download to RTMP FMS. they deployed over 300 servers cross 3 CDNs to support the FMS origin Edge topology. The videos include 3800 hours owned by IOC and 1200 hours owned by CCTV.

This is the fact I knew from CCTV’s team.

By: Mio Babic

Mio Babic — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:36:44 +0000

Even with VOD only this is still very important to Adobe for several reasons. If competing technology is making a push, you still want to have your skin in the game to take away as much air as possible from your competitor’s story. More importantly, any time you have opportunity to reach out to 300M+ potential viewers that can drive adoption of your technology, it makes all the sense in the world to participate. Overall this is a great news for the industry and consumers because competition brings the best out of people including companies – Adobe with their Flash technology and Microsoft with Silverlight.

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:38:09 +0000

@OlympicFan and Phillip: Fair points. I think the BBC is also streaming coverage using Windows Media Player (though don’t quote me on that – I found their site difficult to navigate). Either way, though, WMP is not Silverlight and on a worldwide scale Flash will still see more use for Olympic video than Silverlight.

@pampado: This wasn’t meant to be “bashing” Microsoft. I’m all for competition and parity.

By: pampado

pampado — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:44:35 +0000

Why does it seem like there are a lot of MS bashers out there. Adobe flash is a monopoly and like all monopolies a bit of competition will not hurt. Silverlight for me is at least giving Adobe some welcome challenge in my opinion.

By: OlympicFan

OlympicFan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:32:37 +0000

You graciously forget to point out that the coverage from CCTV in China is not STREAMED from Flash.

One has to download a custom video player to get the streamed (i.e. live) content. FLash will only show the on-demand re-encoded video. And this is taking a long long time to be available (for example, the soccer games played 6 hours ago still haven’t shown up).

Not sure how this adds up to a ‘gold’ for Flash.

By: Phillip Ramsay

Phillip Ramsay — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:53:36 +0000

FYI: Adobe Flash in CCTV is only being used with VOD, the actual live streaming is being done with Windows Media Player. So in a sense, they really haven’t proven scale yet.

Why let the facts get in the way of a good headline though ;)