REAL PLAYER DECEPTION

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Yup, you are probably right, as I moved from D.C. to Garland in 1988 and
had a 286/386. But Shirley by 1995 (when I retired from Rockwell and
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Don't call me Shirley (sorry...had to do it).
had a P-something) I had already beta-tested cable modems, and dropped
Real-whatever. Maybe I dropped it in it's first month. Maybe it came
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Real (fill in the blank) has been crap since day one. I honestly never
understood why people liked it. They then came out with RealVideo. Ah
yes...video the size of a postage stamp.

Generally speaking, if it's presented in RealMedia...it's not worth
watching/listening anyway.
out in Dallas first. Maybe I am just old and don't remember. I do
remember when we hacked code into marble tablets with chisels, And we
liked it that way!
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Something I find amusing is how such computers as the CoCo (yay!) and the
Commie64 (boo! hiss!) hooked up directly to the TV. Kids these days think
paying a couple hundred bucks for a converter (or a video card that does it
directly) that lets you direct video from your computer to your TV is new
and cool. Phft. I tell ya, .52 dot pitch builds character!
Now I am retired in the Sierra Nevada with a satellite connection. Oh,
the latency. No streaming anything. No voice-over-internet telephone.
My connection is 62,000 miles long. At least I don't have to
trouble-shoot the line.
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How is satellite internet these days? I haven't really paid attention
since you still had to use a modem for the uplink. They must have
corrected that by now.
 
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I only keep it around to make use of the BBC Radio "Listen
Again" service. I do wish they would switch to a different
platform for their streaming media.
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The Realplayer download on the BBC website is said to be a special
spyware-free version which the BBC negotiated with Realplayer to
provide. See "How to get spyware-free RealPlayer through the BBC"
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/02/01/how_to_get_spywarefr.html

Realplayer 8 is at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp_install.shtml

Don't know about the BBC's version of RealOne on the same page.
 
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