We're going for an Olympic Silver(light)

Sort of an interesting story on how it came to be that Microsoft Silverlight was chosen to broadcast the Olympics via the series of interconnecting tubes: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10003752-56.html?tag=nefd.lede

I'm guessing Silverlight supports our VC-1 codec which rules them all . . . I recently used Expression Encoder 2.0 to encode a 1 hour DVR-MS file (an MPEG 2 stream) from 1.6GB down to 550Mb with litle to no loss in quality - it's amazing . . . it's the mirrors.