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by ricardo 5957 days ago
I saw the same message when attempting to view a video on NBC's Olympics site. After grudgingly installing Silverlight I was still unable to watch anything. The videos require Silverlight 2 or 3, neither of which is supported on a PowerPC mac.
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I don't understand why they are trying to push 2 proprietary formats on us. You think they would at least try to stick with just one if they weren't going to go with HTML5.
NBC doesn't care about formats. They probably made a great deal with Microsoft to make Silverlight the exclusive choice for their Olympics coverage. NBC makes some money and Microsoft gets their plug in installed on a lot of machines that wouldn't otherwise.
Well the motivations for MS and Adobe are obvious.

MS definitely (not sure about Adobe) chooses high profile video intensive sites to "partner with" to show-case their platform.

In short, it's business.