HOW SILVERLIGHT WOULD CHANGE THE WEB

Highest Quality Video Experience
Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser
Developers and Graphic Designers can play together
Cheaper
Support for 3rd Party Languages
Cross-Platform, Cross-Browser Remote Debugging
The best development environment on the planet
Silverlight offers copy protection
Extreme Speed

WHAT IS SILVERLIGHT

Silverlight is a new cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of media experiences and Rich Interactive Applications(RIA) for the web.

It runs in all popular browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera. The plugin required to run Silverlight is very small in size hence gets installed very quickly.

FEATURES OF SILVERLIGHT

Main features of Silverlight 1.0 :
Built-in codec support for playing VC-1 and WMV video, and MP3 and WMA audio within a browser.
Silverlight supports the ability to progressively download and play media content from any web-server.
Silverlight also optionally supports built-in media streaming.
Silverlight enables you to create rich UI and animations, and blend vector graphics with HTML to create compelling content experiences.
Silverlight makes it easy to build rich video player interactive experiences.