Created using Microsoft Silverlight 2, the video player is expected to deliver 2,200 hours of live streaming coverage from NBC to millions of U.S. viewers with a high-level picture quality, interactive features and user control.MediaPost Publications - WPP Offers New Schematic For Watching Olympic Games: Live, On-Demand Web Player - 07/03/2008
Likewise, the player is designed to help NBCOlympics.com visitors to access roughly 3,000 hours of on-demand video, including full-event replays, highlights and interviews.All of the content will be available free of charge, and the video player will feature more than a dozen live video streams at peak times to ensure that fans will be able to watch favorite athletes across 25 Olympic sports.
We should all recall that Live8 was watched by 1.1 million viewers on MTV while - simultaneously - more than 5 million people streamed the uninterrupted concert on AOL Video. Do the math, folks. This may be the first Olympic Games for which more viewers watch online versus broadcast television. We shall see ...
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