instructions : test out the smooth streaming demo , let it analyze your pcs performance then download silverlight 3 and run the demo again, and see the difference!
there is a strong possibility that MS will add silverlight instead of flash to the ZUNE HD .... look at the specs .. im sure the TEGRA processor would happily welcome this addon
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* Personal Computer running Windows: X86 or x64 500-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor with 128-megabytes (MB) of RAM
* Mac OS 10.4.8+ (Intel-based): Intel Core Duo 1.83-gigahertz (GHz) or higher processor with 128-MB of RAM
There are thousands of new APIs and hundreds of new features for this version, but the really important ones can be broken down into four points:
* Media: GPU hardware acceleration, new codec support (H.264, AAC, MPEG-4), raw bitstream Audio/Video API, and improved logging for media analytics
* Graphics: GPU Acceleration and hardware compositing, perspective 3D, bitmap and pixel API, pixel shader effects, and Deep Zoom improvements
* Application development: Deep linking, navigation and SEO, improved text quality, multi-touch support, 60+ controls available, and library caching support
* Data: Data-binding improvements, validation error templates, server data push improvements, binary XML networking support, and multi-tier REST data support
In terms of streaming, Microsoft says Silverlight 3 brings "high-definition video in full-screen mode, with stutter-free live and on-demand video" to the table. There's also Smooth Streaming (demo), which allows one to start playing an HD video at any point in time, instantaneously. Version 3 allows developers to create Web applications that can exist outside the browser. How does it work? Open a browser page. Launch the Silverlight application. Close the browser. The Silverlight program lives on.
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Last edited by Creative Zune; 07-09-2009 at 08:33 PM.
It's not a question whether the zHD will have Silverlight. Anyother software company probably would. And MS is probably going to push this. I just hope they keep flash support.
Who knows? Maybe we'll be able to make apps for the Zune without being bound to C#/XNA. Who knows? MS as usual, isn't giving much details.
Silverlight 3 for zune HD? maybe..
