NBCOlympics.com has been doing an incredible job providing streaming videos in their rich Silverlight player – with Picture In Picture dual streams and all. I have been watching quite a few video streams and the quality is exceptional at full screen size. Nicely done.

Want Live video – here you go - http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html

If you have a Vista Media Center capable PC then it gets even nicer. Using the Video To Go app, you can schedule your favorite programs for background downloads which means when you get back later in the evening you will have HD quality video to watch instantly. I just hope there was a web based implementation of remote scheduling where I can use a different PC to schedule my recordings, but hey I guess this works for most.

Hey, in case you haven’t seen, the US MSN Homepage also has a compact and neat little Silverlight gadget here – http://www.msn.com. For the folks who still haven’t got Silverlight, you get a downlevel HTML version as well.

Click here to get shining in Silverlight 2.