11 ms·
I saw the same message when attempting to view a video on NBC's Olympics site. After grudgingly installing Silverlight I was still unable to watch anything. T
by ricardo 17y ago
I saw the same message when attempting to view a video on NBC's Olympics site. After grudgingly installing Silverlight I was still unable to watch anything. The videos require Silverlight 2 or 3, neither of which is supported on a PowerPC mac.
- g0atbutt 17y agoI don't understand why they are trying to push 2 proprietary formats on us. You think they would at least try to stick with just one if they weren't going to go with HTML5.
- ricardo 17y agoNBC doesn't care about formats. They probably made a great deal with Microsoft to make Silverlight the exclusive choice for their Olympics coverage. NBC makes some money and Microsoft gets their plug in installed on a lot of machines that wouldn't otherwise.
- dschobel 17y agoWell the motivations for MS and Adobe are obvious. MS definitely (not sure about Adobe) chooses high profile video intensive sites to "partner with" to show-case their platform. In short, it's business.
- BearOfNH 17y agoI think the Olympics are 80% business, 10% politics and 10% athletic competition. No wonder NBC can call the tune. Since I don't really care about the Olympics (YMMV, 'sOK) I don't watch and don't have Silverlight installed. I wonder if Adobe can build a Silverlight plug-in in competition with MS, just like the many .PDF readers available from 3rd parties.