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Real Launches New Player, Music Store
kforeman writes "You may have heard Real's
many announcements today, including the release of RealPlayer 10
with vastly improved codecs, as well as our new Music Store. As a
result of the player engine being developed in the Helix
community, we're able to offer the benefits of the new RealAudio
and RealVideo in
in the Helix Player for Linux. We read Slashdot here at Real, especially when the
subject of our company or technology comes up, so we know some of you
may not have liked recent versions of our player. This release
represents a much friendlier direction for us; more options that were
'opt-out' are now 'opt-in'. In developing RealVideo 10,
our codec team has been working closely with the Doom9 community, and
has been posting
updates to that forum (look for references to RV9-EHQ). The tests
that have been performed by that community show RealVideo doing
quite well against the competition." There's a CNET News article discussing the announcements, including the jukebox's ability to play "secure downloads from the iTunes store", for those looking for another point of view.
Dear Real Networks,
I'd really love to use your bloated, ugly player. Unfortunately I don't support spammers. Especially ones that distribute malware that not only takes over a user's media file associations without their consent but constantly phones home and nags them about upgrading.
No, I think I'll stick with Real Alternative should I ever need to play a file that some misguided fool has encoded using your POS codec.
Nasty stinky software. Keep it away from us!
I'm sure it does its best to rape your computer for any information it can get.
First off, you don't even know the meaning of the word. Well, if you use windows, you might have a vague idea. But from the looks of it, you don't (have a vague idea - I'm quite certain you use windows).
Why the fuck would anyone subject themselves to everything that their software does in excess of actually creating or viewing media?
I would make the same arguments about windows, yet, its the most popular desktop 'operating system'.
A pox on every fucking idiot who encodes or has encoded media in real's format.
Its my guess you haven't bothered to even download the software, as the web site is slashdotted. So why should we (the slashdot reading community) take any of your boisterous comments seriously?
If you want to see Real 'get real' then see them now, after the slashdotting
Real Networks, and their spectacularly crappy software, are a shitstain on the mediaplayer market. Their spyware/adware is a bloated piece of shit.
The Real company is the most vile company around, bar none.
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
Ever since RealOne came out, I flat out refuse...buffering...buffering...buffering...to install anything from Real on my system. I don't care how good the codec is, when I install player software I don't want to deal with a ...buffering...buffering...buffering...zillion popups and filetype takeovers. Evil software, I want you to play .rm files and that's it, not replace WinAmp and throw popups in my face at rand...Server Timeout
-R
Well, RealShittyPlayer folks, if you read Slashdot, I hope you read this. Try not to take it personally. Your product sucks. Sucks SO BADLY that I prefer a Microsoft product over yours, something which I thought would never happen. Windows Media Player is less intrusive, less full of spyware, easier to use, more attractive, and sucks less. Now for the constructive criticism: Get rid of the "messenger" ad spamming service. Oh boy, that's fun. I love ads that come up AFTER I've closed the program. Thank you so very much. Get rid of the "feature" that makes RealShittyPlayer the default application for every media type on my computer. Get rid of the "service" that signs up unsuspecting users for spam for eternity. Make the application skinnable while you're at it. The default is INCREDIBLY ugly. I won't ever use it again anyway, seeing as how it FUCKS UP THE COMPUTER when trying to uninstall it, but I thought I'd put those suggestions out there. One more thing...please go out of business as quickly as possible. kthxbye
Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
Oh, and if you Real people ARE reading this, I hope you go belly up like you deserve to, crappy companies deserve crappy endings.
I want 2D games back.
I just went to the doom9 site and it seems to be all about informing people about how to rip and back up DVDs they own. Granted, I didn't spend a lot of time there though. Why exactly would publishing this info make these people, or those who visit it experts in streaming audio/video codecs?
Wouldn't it be a better idea to have developed the codecs with a community of A/V experts or web content producers?
In my limited view, this statement seems about like: "We at Yugo have developed our new car with close consultation of car wash operators." The one has nothing to do with the other.
Article X: The powers not delegated... by the Constitution...are reserved...to the people