Ice Cube's UVNTV.com Goes Live with Silverlight

Two weeks ago, I went down to Hollywood to meet with a very exciting team who is creating a TV experience on the web using Silverlight.  Musician/Actor Ice Cube and his team talk about the web site in a short video that I recorded at Ice Cube's CubeVision Production Company office.  If you watch the video, you'll see my boss Carlos McKinley there wearing the white shirt. Here's the video clip that I uploaded to video.msn.com.

Ice Cube's UVNTV.com goes live with Microsoft Silverlight

I also created a Silverlight application using Expression Encoder and Expression Blend with a HD-quality version of the video (1280x720 24p 4kbs) and uploaded it to the Silverlight Streaming site.

You can put the video on your page with this HTML:

<iframe src="https://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/216/UVNTV/iframe.html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="width:800px; height:600px"></iframe>

You can also open the link directly to the Silverlight Streaming video at https://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/216/UVNTV/iframe.html and it will fill the browser area.

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2007
  Two weeks ago, I went down to Hollywood to meet with a very exciting team who is creating a TV experience

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2007
  speechless

Scott Barnes RIA Evangelist Microsoft.

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2007
  Ice Cube Likes Silverlight So It's Good Enough For Me

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2007
  As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video Camera

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2007
  I tried to replicate the same experience MD had with both my MacBook Pro and iMac and shrug never came up? MD: I think it's great Adobe are supporting Silverlight through installation, shows that we can all rise above this red team vs blue team and move forward. This is encouraging to see!

Scott Barnes RIA Evangelist Microsoft.

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2007
  Hi, Scott - I know you love to turn every discussion into "red vs. blue" to distract from the actual conversation, but it's just not the case here. It looks like a cool site - and I'm happy that it's working for UNTV.com. My description of the install process was 100% accurate. I did it from Firefox on Mac OS X 10.5 running the first final release of Silverlight (not a clean install, which I would expect to download a DMG for). If I get some free time I'll do a screen capture and post it to my blog. Go Red Team! Regards, MD

Mike Downey | Adobe Systems | mdowney@adobe.com http://www.adobe.com/flashon

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2007
  Woah guys! I don't want to have to watch this thread during my Thanksgiving break.   Mike, our team is already looking at the install experience that you reported; than you.  I'd love to see the screen captures; you have my email if you want to send them.  If you had the final release of Silverlight, you shouldn't have needed to download anything else.  I'd love to follow up with you on this but I understand if you can't. Scott, Mike is helping us make Silverlight better by pointing out problems he is experiencing.  Let's welcome that as a challenge to help the product team improve the Silverlight experience. Thanks, Michael

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2007
  Folks, Wasn't disputing Mike's agenda :) I just noticed it didn't replicate my way so i'm not sure what the deal is (ie tried in on both Macs so... shrug I'm interested in seeing it aswell). Secondly, Red vs Blue team thing is more to do with how encouraging it is to see that Adobe staffers are installing Silverlight. Shows that we are all enjoying each others experiences. Time to reduce the politics radar down a bit me thinks ;) can't even pass compliments now :)

Scott Barnes RIA Evangelist Microsoft.

• Anonymous
  November 23, 2007
  I just added an animated "Press Play" graphic to the Silverlight Media Player created with Expression

• Anonymous
  November 24, 2007
  Mike Downey, Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe Systems, wrote a comment to my blog post about

• Anonymous
  November 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 27, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 28, 2007
  Taking the win for the last thing I expected to see in my Inbox this morning,

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 30, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 02, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 02, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 10, 2007
  Just read a post by Michael Scherotter about http://uvntv.com - basically this is a new video for the

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2007
  Taking the win for the last thing I expected to see in my Inbox this morning,

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  While it might be hard to believe that Silverlight has only been o n the market since September and it

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  While it might be hard to believe that Silverlight has only been o n the market since September and it

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2008
  While it might be hard to believe that Silverlight has only been on the market since September and it

• Anonymous
  January 08, 2008
  Check out the article in today's USA Today (is that redundant?) about Ice Cube's UVNTV.com . It has been

• Anonymous
  January 15, 2008
  This is awesome! "Internet TV coming at you at UVN!" (with Silverlight). IceCube is the co-founder of

• Anonymous
  January 15, 2008
  This is awesome! "Internet TV coming at you at UVN!" (with Silverlight). Ice Cube is the co

• Anonymous
  January 17, 2008
  I'll cut to the chase on this one. Seem's Mike Downey at Adobe suffers from Silverlight related

• Anonymous
  January 18, 2008
  Michael... Nice, your living the dream...

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2008
  I have been browsing through the Zune desktop software that I installed with my new Zune that I wanted

• Anonymous
  February 24, 2008
  This is awesome! "Internet TV coming at you at UVN!" (with Silverlight). Ice Cube is the co

• Anonymous
  March 15, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 06, 2008
  Two weeks ago, I went down to Hollywood to meet with a very exciting team who is creating a TV experience on the web using Silverlight. Musician/Actor Ice Cube and his team talk about the web site in a short video that I recorded at Ice Cube's CubeVisio

• Anonymous
  September 05, 2008
  I tried to reach you but i couldnt,pls text me,i tried to watch your latest videos which you perform last two weeks but it wasnt available.I love u soo much,have a nice day.MORE BLESSINGS

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  Interesting post, thanks for a good read!

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2008
  I really like the idea of combining several concepts into one. Hoping for more like this in the future.

• Anonymous
  December 09, 2008
  It is a major problem, glad to of found a solution. Thanks.