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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.
But all the page said was "Buffering..."
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Wow. You must be really low on self-esteem by now then...
"We think the legal online distribution of movies is going to be a big business sooner than a lot of people think," said Real's senior vice president of marketing Dan Sheehan. "With today's bandwidth via broadband, that can be a reality."
Other things Real's senior vice president of marketing Dan Sheehan thinks are going to be HUGE in the coming years:
fresh drinking water in every home - "With today's underground pipe system, that can be a reality."
horseless carriage or "automobile" - "With today's improvements in steam or gasoline engines, that can be a reality."
the cross-country telegraph - "With today's amazing conductive wires, that can be a reality."
fire - "With today's spark-creating rocks, that can be a reality."
Mr. Sheehan also mentioned his business is ready for the upcoming advances in vacuum tube technology that will allow computers to fit inside a single room, and have enough magnetic core memory to install all Real Networks adware and .dll files without crashing.
Did you try the new player/codecs? If you didn't notice, they said they vastly improved the codecs. That would probably fall into the category of "serious innovations." I haven't personally tried out the new player, but then I'm not bashing it either. All I'm saying is try it before you bash it. There was a time when Real was king. As long as Real remains, that time could return.
Actually, Quicktime is great because of its file associations. I installed it and it, by default, associated all MIDI files to itself even though it lacked the required plug-in to actually play MIDI files. No more annoying music coming from any of my browsers besides what's in my playlist!
common sense: noun
What those who are ignorant of the subject matter think; usually wrong.
Dear RealNetworks,
We here at Slashdot are pleasantly surprised to find your interest in our site. However, we regret to inform you that most of us would rather cut off our dicks than use RealPlayer.
We don't need a toolbar, a quicklaunch icon, a system-tray memory resident piece of shit, a start menu icon, a desktop icon, and a favorites link. We also think your codec sucks, streams badly, and we can do without your adware.
In conclusion, thank you for your business.
Sincerely,
Anonymous Coward
#1 Slashdot poster for 6 years running.
PLEASE MODERATE -1 Unpleasant facts not in favour of Apple!
Thank you for your encouraging words. We are and will continue to build the world's best media players on Linux and other OS's including Windows.
Kevin Foreman
These features took a lot of time to develop. It took everything to get some of them out-in in Real10. Management will lose the face if they get removed, it's just impossible. In other words, the size of the installer in MB cannot shrink, as that would mean work has been wasted. Work can only be "rechanneled". So please mention things you want added or rechanneled, not things you want removed!
That's the euphemism of the decade.
Game... blouses.
The key to the video codec market is pr0n. The don't need to innovate they simply need ensure that most pr0n is in realmedia format.
Seriously, how many people downloaded their first media program to view porn?? Hands up.
Step 1) Hop on fast track and download loads of pr0n.
Step 2) Re-encode into realmedia format.
Step 3) Upload on a big fat pipe.
Step 4) $$$ Profit $$$
Well shit, you missed out on the best part. On the next page it asks for your social security number, ATM PIN, and mothers maiden name.
If I had a dollar for every time I downloaded realplayer and used biteme@here.com ....
Ah. My own preferred account details are kissmy@ass.com. I'm always astonished that I can still register using this address.
Yeah, much better to bitch and bitch about how bad it is, and why can't it be nice and friendly, and then when others state that it finally might be, to want nothing to do with it.
My hand is too busy to be raised, you insensitive clod!!!
I guess it goes to show you, how many whiney windows users are on slashdot.
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