[access-uk] Re: RealPlayer
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:54:17 +0100
Well Kevin, for what its worth, as I've said to Sandra off-list, I don't
personally have much problem with Realone Player. You can, as you say,
disable live updating, although quite often Real Player wants to download
and put a file called "TKBellExe in the start-up items. I disable this and
that doesn't seem to cause any grief with RP.
I think the run around people have in getting the unpaid for version puts
people in a bad frame of mind towards Real Networks from the start. Given
half a chance they're a very pushy outfit. Its a business model or method
that really gets my goat. I suppose that and the much loathed BBC Player go
a long way to explaining people's antipathy towards Real Networks.
I guess they make the majority of money from streaming stations that are
into digital rights management. and I believe they started out with the big
idea of distributing music in protected formats. I dare say all that might
indicate why the Beeb are prepared to pay over so much to them for their
streaming. That and, I guess, them being the first on the block in that
business.
From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of kevin and emma
well, just to throw a spanner in the works! smile, i use real player and
have never had a problem with it. i do'nt get it asking me to update,
primarily because i turned that feature off!
Kevin - owner of the audyssey gamers discussion list at:
www.audyssey.org
contact me via email/msn:
kream@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra Henshall" <oceania@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 7:58 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: RealPlayer
> Yes, Andy; I'll second Vince's message about real alternative.
I've used
> it for ages and it streams BBC programmes just fine. Real player is a
pain
> in the . . . and I couldn't wait to get rid of it!
>
> Cheers,
> Sandra.
>
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