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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Roth @ Oct 29th 2008 12:28AM
HD streaming? That's gotta be Stage6. DivX's Stage6 division must've teamed up with Microsoft to produce Silverlight. If it's their intent to include Silverlight in the 360 then wow.
// Roth
Mike B. @ Oct 29th 2008 1:03AM
cause HD streaming isn't possible using any other codec? No H.264, or VC-1? hmmm...
DrXym @ Oct 29th 2008 10:00AM
Silverlight is based around VC-1 and proprietary codecs. Streaming is quite possible with H264, though I doubt MS would be too happy about it so it seems more like it would be VC-1 or a variant.
ZenMasta @ Oct 29th 2008 3:55PM
Roth, why is your text gray? Anyways, I thought Stage6 gave up to Hulu or was that Veoh (are they the same companies?). I used to love Stage6 cause it was all very HQ video. I am a big fan of hulu now too because the content is more mainstream than stage6 was. I hope they bring silverlight on XBOX and Zune, just imagine if we got content similar to Joe Cartoon? Rather than downloading a 10-20MB video to your zune you could just run a couple meg silverlight file.
JerkfacedFed @ Oct 29th 2008 4:36PM
Silverlight plays VC-1
Xbox 360 can play VC-1
Silverlight does not use H.264 and neither does netflix.
They are using VC-1 because it is cross compatible with their console and silverlight, which works on any OS and browser silverlight works on.