The Future of MLB.TV - Microsoft Silverlight

MikeG · May 4, 2007

Check out the Demonstration: http://www.visitmix.com/Blogs/Joshua/major-league-baseball-mix07-demo/

More Bandwith: 1.5 Mbps streaming whereas today they stream at 400K and 700K
Composite Video: Overlays of the video stream that offer controls that allow you to manage the video or view enhanced information. For example, the data that you see today in Gameday will be made available via widgets that rest semi-transparently on top of the video in an unobtrusive form providing the wealth of additional information that MLBAM is collecting. For many of BP’s subscribers this is a true value-add as it creates new ways of watching the game by integrating that information that we crave.
Chatting: In the same vein a chat widget will be available that allows for conversations with friends and fans of rival teams.
Player Tracker: The Player Tracker used in Mosaic will be available with widgets that overlay the video that provide real time updates on your players and can then make available highlights of your players.
Picture in Picture: They showed a nice feature where a “friend” can send a video clip which can then be viewed in “picture in a picture” mode while the main stream continues to play.
Resizing: One of the features that Silverlight enables is dynamic resizing to allow the user to check on other scores, stats, and content and resize the video window on the fly accordingly.
Mobility: And finally, they showed a forward looking demo that had Gameday running on a Windows mobile phone with the player tracker feature playing video clips.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=356

As a .NET Developer, this makes me very excited.