Olympic swimming gold captured by Silverlight

Have you seen the amazing Olympic final in the men's swimming 4X100 relay? World records were set by many swimmers in this race and it all came down to the final touch at the wall. The Americans beat the heavily favored French team by .o8 of a second. You can see it again thanks to Microsoft's Silverlight and NBC.

The Wall Street Journal says NBC is providing some 3,600 hours of coverage of the games, about 75% of it live, across its broadcast and cable networks and its Web site -- even as it works to keep unauthorized feeds from its potential audience in the U.S.

The quality and clarity of the Silverlight video is absolutely amazing. I don't normally watch video on my PC because of it is usually slow and poor quality. Not any more. This is fast, no jerky motion, and awesome quality. Note the "powered by Silverlight" logo in the lower left hand corner.

You can watch continuing coverage of all the Olympics events on MSN.

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