How exiting is this? Silverlight 5 will include, among other niceties, taking full advantage of the hardware, using GPU accelerated HD video decoding and the ability to control this rich media using a remote!!!! Now we're talking :-)

Additionally the startup is going to be much faster and it will be able to take advantage of the hardware acceleration capabilities of IE9.

The only drawback -- won't be RTM until mid 2011

You can get the goods over at Scott Guthrie's: http://bit.ly/eJdaCW 

- Cheers