Real may or may not be evil, but their technology sucks. That's the reason I hate them. The annoying software is just icing on the cake. I can't ever seem to get anything that looks much better than either a 3spf slideshow or something so compressed it looks more like a lost piece of Mondrian art than ... buffering ... buffering ... video.

I have none of these problems with WMP or QT.

Actually, I'm sort of tired of proprietary codecs generally.

Again, especially the ones that suck.

I saw this a couple days ago ... pretty cool. Just watching the spin from the first flight made me want to throw up. I can't imagine actually being inside the thing.