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by g0atbutt 5958 days ago
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.
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ricardo 5958 days ago
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.
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dschobel 5958 days ago
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.

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