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Real Player 10.1 has been made available, and it's a universal
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Aaron Jacobs said 9:10AM on 5-02-2006
At least Real Player for OS X isn't nearly as horrible as the version for Windows.
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Stefan Constantinescu said 9:12AM on 5-02-2006
Glad to see Mac people hate Real as much as Windows people.
Everyone should just avoid Real like the plague.
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Ruben Santiago said 9:13AM on 5-02-2006
wahoo!...i think..
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NotVeryPC said 9:19AM on 5-02-2006
If your in the UK DON'T use the London mirror as it's the OLD version. Use the Seattle link instead.
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Thomas said 9:36AM on 5-02-2006
To be fair, the Mac version of realplayer would be one of the better apps for windows. Doesn't stop me hating it though.
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William Bartley said 10:10AM on 5-02-2006
It used to be that Real Player was required to listen to my favorite show, This American Life, on NRP Radio. A few weeks back, they began using streaming mp3s. I can't remember the last time I had to use Real Player. Oh, well.
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C. Grant said 10:21AM on 5-02-2006
The sooner they lose their exclusivity contracts with places like MLB, the sooner their player and their format will crawl under the porch and die. Until then, we'll be stuck with them for awhile.
And is it just me, or does the Mac client allow you to bypass registering an acct. name, while the Windows client does not?
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Todd Dominey said 10:28AM on 5-02-2006
Everyone loves to beat up Real (myself included), but the fact is there's still a lot of content out there encoded in their format. Without an official player OS X users would totally be in the dark, for there are no third party alternatives. So to the Mac dev team at Real, I say good job. Still works a hell of a lot better than Windows Media Player ever did on my box.
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Paul Bailey said 10:38AM on 5-02-2006
It might be a yawn for you, but the BBC News and Sport website makes extensive use of Real content, and with the way that they render the pages, getting the URL for the content wasn't easy.
The only way around this was to run Safari in Rosetta, which was hardly ideal. Having a UB version is a real boon.
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Steve Bellamy said 10:44AM on 5-02-2006
While I don't much care for Real itself... as an expat Brit, I am tied to Real to get online BBC content, like my daily fix of the Today Show on Radio 4. The Uni versio is so much quicker to load etc than the Rosetta version, and does now work as a Safari plugin - this IS a big deal to me.
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Ralph said 11:11AM on 5-02-2006
Why do these sites use Real instead of a QuickTime or iTunes stream? (Excuse my technical ignorance.)
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iFelix said 11:12AM on 5-02-2006
I have not admit I don't like Real Player, but I listen and watch a lot of stuff on the BBC website and they use it.
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Adam said 12:14PM on 5-02-2006
But don't the BBC podcast alot of their Radio shows through iTunes now?
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vgoh said 12:22PM on 5-02-2006
For me, REAL player is indispensible if you want to watch or listen to internet TVs or radios.
Examples:
-- BBC (lots of Radios Stations to choose from)
-- C-Span (3 TV channels)
-- Radio Australia (English and Chinese)
-- Deutsche Welle (Live TV and Radio)
-- Radio Air America
-- Radio Franch Int + Some local tv channel
-- NASA TV
-- NPR...
Just the tip of the iceberg.
I am a Mac user, why can't Quicktime do that?
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Jason said 12:26PM on 5-02-2006
Hey, I hate Real just as much as the next guy. But as long as some content is being done with it, it's a necessary evil. And if it's going to be evil, it might at well have some universal goodness to soften the pain, right?
I listen to NPR's Marketplace, which is still in Real format. Such is life.
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phlavor said 12:55PM on 5-02-2006
While I understand the arguments of the "as long as some content is being done with it, it's a necessary evil." and "It's the only way I can watch ______." people, I have to disagree. Real Player is a steaming pile of crap on any platform and it always has been.
It's a completely unnecessary evil. Sites will stop supplying content in it when people refuse to use it. Personally, if the content is in Real only, it goes unviewed by me. They can't make a product that works to my satisfaction, so I don't use it.
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Pete said 1:15PM on 5-02-2006
MotoGP.com content is streamed using Real (and WMP). It's like picking the lesser of 2 evils. I wished they'd stream them using QT. Quality would be _SO_ much better
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Christopher Williams said 2:49PM on 5-02-2006
Camino crashes and burns instantly when trying to go to a page with embedded Real content now that I have installed it. It works fine with Safari, but Camino chokes.
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Tom said 1:44AM on 5-03-2006
The BBC does podcast some programmes but the vast majority of their stuff is either streamed live via RealPlayer or available online for seven days via RP. I listen to the BBC a lot and so need RP. It is ironic that the BBC who pretty much embrace technology should still be relying on RealPlayer to broadcast their shows online. Several years ago they experimented with OGG files for example. I hope the exclusive use of streaming with RealPlayer comes to an end soon.
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Mark said 4:49AM on 5-03-2006
I use iRecordMusic to timeshift the RealAudio content I listen to (mostly BBC). I set up recordings to be in mp3 or aac format so I can listen to shows on my iPod. If you don't like RealPlayer you could do this. Set up recordings when you're sleeping, then you won't even have to look at the software... but in my opinion, RealPlayer is a useful app, and its good that Real are supporting the Mac.
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