[Solatar]

I've never had a problem with iTunes, although I don't use it for videos.

[Liberator]

Real would be better if Broadband were everywhere, but once you get out of reasonably populated areas the service for "Information Age" tech goes out the window.

[Flaser]

I used to have a lot of stuff in real format.

Back in '98 to '01 there were a lot of content, and DivX was still not the mainstream format.
For the values it showed - I mean the data quantity/quality - it was AWSOME!

Nothing could shrink a video that much, and still produce an enjoyable quality.
However it's not perfect, it's not beatuful, but when you were bleeding with a darn 56k modem at midnight to cut back on tel. cost it was a godsend.

BTW I never moved beyon version 8 - that was a spyware free version when they hadn't bought in to Gates Empire.

There is no reason to use it nowadays, but back than it was different.

[Knight Templar]

lol @ rictor

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[Singh]

*Uses Windows Media Player 9.0

*runs

[Liberator]

*points at Singh and giggles*
*uses Winamp and Media Player Classic*
*wonders why he can't bind WAV files to the Sound Recorder*

[vyper]

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=23302&category=main

Bubye Real...

[silverwolf]

i use both winamp and WMP9 the only thing i don't like about win amp is it takes a little time to load a song on mine. but i usually only use WMP for videos ozzy osbourne music videos anyone?

[Stealth]

i don't have real installed, and i never will.  last time i did was at least two years ago.  it sucks.  if it's the only format the video, etc. is available in, then i rather don't watch/listen to it

[MatthewPapa]

REAL ONE player...... REAL SUCKS player. Its a pain because It has spyware and starts up your computer in the system tray unless you tell it not to. Its just worthless...

[phreak]

im asking the same question about quicktime movies as well.

[Flipside]

Yeah, Quicktime has the same problem of placing itself in your startup list etc, and, let's face it, once again there are far better and more efficient movie formats. Admittedly, .mov is slowly fading, it's kinda like .pdf, which is a really annoying format, since it requires an entire piece of software installed on your computer when a Word document would have done the job just as well

[aldo_14]

And why the **** can you not resize a quicktime movie when it plays in a browser window?  I mean, if I wanted my televisual viewing in stamp size mode I'd just really far back from the computer looking down the wrong end of a telescope.