Somasegar Mentions that Microsoft will be providing a Silverlight viewer for NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympics, but I don't really care about the technology. What I find more impressive is the new coverage options we will see for this years Olympics.
As a part of this, we will provide users with exclusive access to over 3000 hours of live and on-demand video content via Silverlight streaming. This means that viewers can access every minute of every event. Additionally, the amount of meta-data attached to each of the streams will be extensive and include links to player bios, medal counts, shortcuts to particular events (i.e. athlete x’s third long-jump attempt), maps of the Olympic facilities, pop-up overlays with real-time event alerts, headlines, video search capabilities, etc.
I look forward to coverage I can choose rather than NBC's homologous Male/Female coverage. Its going to rock just watching the events I care about.