World Series of Poker Exclusive Interviews Now on the Web Powered by iStreamPlanet's Player Built on Microsoft Silverlight.iStreamPlanet is One of the First Application Services See ASP and Web services. Provider to Offer a Fully Customizable Player Based on the Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight (code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere or WPF/E) is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, providing a subset of the animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation Platform LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Bluff Media and iStreamPlanet Co. have teamed up once again, along with Limelight Networks Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW) is a network for bandwidth-intensive rich media applications over the Internet. It is based in Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. The company seeks to position the Limelight Content Delivery Network (CDN) as the best platform for distribution of , a leading content delivery for digital media, to bring the World Series of Poker The World Series of Poker is the largest set of poker tournaments in the world. It is held annually in Las Vegas, lasting just over a month. A bracelet is awarded to the winner of each of the fifty-plus events which include all the major varieties of poker. to thousands of poker fans across the globe. Making good on the promise to bring a dynamic, fully customizable viewing experience to customers by third quarter of 2007, iStreamPlanet Co. has provided Bluff Media their iStream Player built on the Microsoft Silverlight technology to organize, manage and deliver exclusive interviews from the 2007 World Series of Poker. In addition to consistent look and feel, as well as compatibility across different platforms, the iStream Player provides a new and innovative way to immerse audiences in rich-media. "Back in July we made the commitment to fully take advantage of the Microsoft Silverlight technology and show the world what is possible with this dynamic and truly innovative new platform," said Mio Babic, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of iStreamPlanet Co. "Our iStream Player is something that customers can take advantage immediately to manage all their content, design their branded player and put it on their website quickly and cost effectively. With the iStream Player and Microsoft Silverlight, customers now have one platform that will work on any browser and operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and will make the user experience as enticing as anything on the internet." With iStreamPlanet's iStream Player and Microsoft Silverlight, Bluff Media is now able to offer this viewing experience, without having to deal with multiple media formats, multiple media players and transcoding. Since the World Series of Poker streams most of its tournament live exclusively in Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. , in the past, they would have had to then transcode (1) To convert from one format to another. It implies conversion between very distinct kinds of data, such as from speech into text or from analog video into digital frames. Sometimes the term is used as nothing more than a fancier synonym for "convert. into other formats for on-demand if they wanted to ensure that viewers on other platforms could enjoy a consistent viewing experience. So, while fans have been flocking to the World Series of Poker website, player experience, logic and the bottom line made the choice to upgrade with the iStream Player an obvious one. "The World Series of Poker, with iStreamPlanet's Silverlight-based iStreamPlayer, is a great example of the cross-platform rich media experience for which Silverlight was created. We are proud to see what iStreamPlanet and the World Series of Poker have accomplished with the technology and we look forward to seeing what comes next," said Sean Alexander, Director of Silverlight at Microsoft Corp. "We are very pleased with the new look and feel of iStream's Player experience. The ability to manage multiple pieces of content and offer it to our customers with the continuity of the brand, is something that we know would have taken weeks if not months, as well as been a cost in terms of design and implementation fees, had we gone with a systems integrator and done this in other formats or platforms. iStream provided us with the code for their player and it was a matter of hours before we had this experience up on our site for the whole world to view," added Nick Geber Nick Geber (born in London, England) was a radio show host on the World Soccer Daily, broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio. His favorite football club is still Liverpool. He moved to the United States in 1979, where he soon joined in the United States Army. , President at Bluff Media. About iStreamPlanet iStreamPlanet specializes in managed webcasts and streaming media applications. Applications are sold through the iStreamPlanet Media Suite which include: iStream Presenter, a rich media presentation platform, iStream Player, a fully branded and customizable media player built on Silverlight technology from Microsoft with playlist A file that contains an index to a selected group of music files on the computer. Using digital jukebox software such as iTunes and Winamp, playlists are created by the user by dragging and dropping titles from a master index. The software may be able to create a playlist automatically. capability and content management system, iStream DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M , a digital rights management service for content protection and conditional access, and PayCast, a media management platform for offering content on paid and subscription basis. iStreamPlanet customers include Caterpillar, Microsoft, American Express, San Disk, Texas Instruments, AT&T Blue Room, WebEx, CES and others. iStreamPlanet has also partnered with America's leading technology service provider for the convention markets, Smart City, to provide managed streaming media services and webcasting to over fifty venues including twenty-six of the largest convention centers nationwide and Disneyland and Disney World Resort Properties. All company names and trademarks herein are properties of their respective owners. |
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