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Graphics in Television: where will it go and how will it impact applications/sites?

Graphics in Television

Darryn, one of WPF's Group Program Managers during its 6 year gestation period, used to stress that he wanted to see WPF able to do what they do for the Olympics on TV - state of the art graphics and animations, etc....

Watching an old baseball game (like the 1968 Tigers victory in the World Series - Watch the Highlight Film...graphics example are at just after the 1 minute mark...) shows you that graphics in TV have come a very long way.

tigersCards

I'm a bit of a politics junky and recently have been watching some of Morning Joe many mornings, lots of background animations, vector style graphics, etc...  I like the feel...feels modern to me.  Check out a sample: Sample of Morning Joe Show.

morningJoe

Graphics in Applications/Sites

Beyond where it goes with television, it will be interesting to see how animations, vectors, opacity, 3d, -etc... will affect applications and web sites.  User preferences and expectations will change.  How will the application/site of today evolve accordingly?

Where do you think this should go?  Where are you going to take this????

Platforms and Tools

We (Microsoft) want to make sure that you have the platforms (WPF & Silverlight) and tools (Expression & Visual Studio) to evolve your user experience.

Please tell us how our platform and tools can grow to make this future possible for you....

 

 

Miscellaneous

  • if you want to hear all of Bobby Kennedy's speech which the Morning Joe segment discusses this montage from youtube will let you hear the 6minute speech.
  • One nit: the graphics that Morning Joe uses, the way they show photos of the people that are coming up seems out of place compared to the rest of the graphics.  Should the photos be on a 3d surface that is slowing moving?  What should their designers do...
Published Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:06 AM by Rob_Relyea
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# re: Graphics in Television: where will it go and how will it impact applications/sites?@ Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:38 PM

I was just at a big trade show last week (ISC West), where there were thousands of products that all looked/behaved the same, except ONE that was easily recognizable as a WPF application.  The program was beautiful and the way the user interacted with it was (I hate to say because they are a competitor) a breakthough.  It was no wonder their app became the darling of the show and their presentations were always packed.  This surely edified my belief that UX is king and WPF is at the top of its game.

IMHO, I think MS going in a great direction with WPF and it's tooling.  The upcomming summer "SP1" features for WPF surely plugs _most_ of the holes in the current version and shows Microsoft is committed to improving the platform.  I can only name one or two shortcomings, but I'm sure the WPF team is already on it :)

-Jer

by Jeremiah Morrill

# re: Graphics in Television: where will it go and how will it impact applications/sites?@ Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:51 PM

Good story...sorry to hear it was a competitor...

Go UX!

-Rob

by Rob_Relyea

# re: Graphics in Television: where will it go and how will it impact applications/sites?@ Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:57 PM

I believe WPF is currently underestimated. It is only a matter of time until companies catch on and see the ROI from using WPF. Given the right scenario, one WPF developer can outrun several WinForms devs, and even more native app devs. Most misconceptions may be that WPF is about fancy graphics and highly interactive UIs. Five years from now when someone reads this comment (if it still exists), we will see whether or not I am right :)

by Kevin Kerr

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