Over the last few months a number of very high profile sites have successfully launched using the beta releases of Silverlight 2. 

In August, NBC hosted the Olympics live on nbcolympics.com and served up 1.3 billion page views, 70 million video streams, and 600 million minutes of video content - making it the largest ever media event on the web.  Users visiting the site spent an average of 27 minutes on the site when they watched a video - an unprecedented number for online traffic.

In August, the Democratic National Convention was streamed live using Silverlight, and broadcast a 2Mbit live video feed of the event and speeches - receiving outstanding feedback from audiences watching it.

This month a number of other high profile sites are going live with the final release of Silverlight 2.  CBS College Sports Network will be streaming 20,000 hours of live games for 150+ college and university partners.  AOL is launching their new AOL Mail browser version to 60 million users using Silverlight 2.  Blockbuster will be launching their new MovieLink subscription service using Silverlight.  Yahoo! Japan is live today enabling live streaming of Major League Baseball games.  Hard Rock International will be updating their memorabilia site with new features.  And companies like Toyota, HSN and hundreds of others will be live this week as well.