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Not convinced. I hate the horrible pixelation (cubing) you get from real videos. If every pornographer is making them look like this obviously it's not just the person encoding. Tons of home users make MPGs or divx or Xvids with very nice quality. I can't recall ever seeing a really nice looking and sounding real file. AFAIK you can't use other codecs for audio either so it's functionality is very impaired if this is true. Every other codec can use practically any audio codec except MPG. Thing is Real made too many mistakes in a very unforgiving Internet. You say they kep usage stats...to me any app that monitors my usage is spywre. They knew ppl don't like spam and spyware and they did it anyway.
Let's get on the app now...I never installed any Real after 8 but the GUIs of old were very clunky, with no playlist or anything unless you bought the whole thing. Is there a million skins like winamp? Does it have numerous plugins like winamp? Can you take advantage of the millions of winamp skins in Real like xmms can?. Sorry man but Real is very closed off and has little extensibility and compatibility compared to the king, Winamp. If Real were a superior product, it would have a good market share and a large usebase to support it with plugins and skins. I never use just one player for vids anyway since WiMP won't play one well while BS Player will.
I appreciate your intent and applaud you sticking by your company, but I think you're preaching to Satanists on this one. Even if Real had none of the flaws and past mistakes that have been covered exhaustively in this thread, I still wouldn't use it since I have absolutely no reason to...it can't beat Winamp. Period.
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I happen to like the words "fuck", "cock", "pussy", "tits", "cunt", "twat", "shit" and even "bitch". As long as I am not using them to describe you, don't go telling me whether or not I can/should use them...that is, if you want me to continue refraining from using them to describe you. ~Prince
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