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TiVo To Support RealNetwork Formats

Posted by timothy on from the battle-of-the-proprietary-video-formats dept.

rtphokie writes: "The flurry of announcements coming form the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas has started with RealNetworks ' anouncement that it had struck deals to include its technology in an array of microchips and devices, including TiVo PVRs. This is the latest move in an effort to expand from the desktop to consumer devices."

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  1. Real = terrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    RealNetworks is terrible, so bad that I have stooped to only using MS media player. Problems include:

    it is "spyware"

    it is non-secure: that is, use of it injects data into your system that you don't have the control over to save, copy, or do what you want.

    Unless you are careful, it splatters itself all over your desktop

    If you are a real idiot, you get spammed if you enter your e-mail address during set-up.

    Unless you are careful, it keeps nagging you to upgrade to a version that is less secure and works worse than the previous version.