Here at the CBS stations we’re pretty proud of our HD inauguration player, too (see Cory’s recent post about MSNBC’s player). It has 7 user-switchable HD feeds from different angles around Washington, one of which is CBS’ anchored coverage. It also has video of all the inaugural speeches going back to FDR, and an embedded Twitter feed from the CBS stations’ national editorial team that highlights different elements as they happen.
The full popup player is 959 pixels wide, so it’s hard to do it justice here:
The user-switchable feeds are across the bottom, and the historic speeches are in the right rail. That’s also where the Twitter feed lives–the user can switch between Twitter and the speeches.
The video is powered by Silverlight and Move Networks, and it looks really great. Even in fullscreen mode on my 30″ monitor, it’s crystal clear.
You can see the live video here until 5 p.m. ET today. After that it will only be the on-demand archives. But Obama’s archived speech is in HD, so you can still get a sense of how good it looked live. (Disclosure: I manage cbs11tv.com, the site of the CBS O&O in Dallas/Fort Worth, so this is a little self-serving–but it really does look good.)