We look at the Olympics and solve puzzles

Perhaps all messages are now devoted to the Beijing Olympic Games, except for those related to politics. And of course, you can enjoy the main event of the four years on the Internet.


Many of you may have heard about the NBCOlympics.com project - the world's largest example of using Silverlight technology to broadcast an event. According to NBC, the site has more than 4 million users a day. An early demonstration of this project could be observed during the opening of the MIX08 conference last spring. The only, but important clarification is that all video materials can be watched only in the United States, because NBC has exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics only in this territory.

But for us this is not a problem - after all, we have the Sport channel! On Sportbox.ru, you can watch all events in real time or upon request through a Silverlight player . I already spoke about this opportunity earlier. But today I discovered on the site in testing mode a new player on Silverlight 2. In addition to the new interface, it has a fun feature - you can cut a video image into several pieces and try to assemble a puzzle with one button. At the same time, the video continues to play inside the pieces, so that the most skillful collectors can simultaneously watch the story itself :) I gladly took advantage of this opportunity when an advertisement appeared on the screen! :)
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By the way, I am not very good at collecting these jigsaw puzzles - tell us what happens if you collect it?

And again an important note - the vast majority of broadcasts on the site can only be viewed on the territory of Russia. This is the practice of dissemination of rights to broadcast, adopted worldwide.

Well, completing the theme of the Olympics and Silverlight, I draw attention to the OlympicShow project. In it, using the DeepZoom technology, you can see the history of the Summer Olympics and learn from Wikipedia.

Original - http://blogs.msdn.com/mikcher/archive/2008/08/14/olympics-puzzle.aspx