Re Real Audio

[Lawrence Lean <llean@netcom.ca>]

Subject: 
       Real Audio...
   Date: 
       Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:20:50 -0400
  From: 
       Christopher Pall <x97pall@wmich.edu>
    To: 
> 
> Subject: 
>        Real Audio...
>    Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:20:50 -0400
>   From:  Christopher Pall <x97pall@wmich.edu>
>     To:  Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO <am-info@essential.org>
> 
> 
> Apparently Microsoft debates the validity of the example of a bug found by real-audio...
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/7-23realnet.htm
> 
> If Microsoft really can find these bugs so quick when it is brought to their attention I can't see why they can't keep their themes on their desktop
> working properly....

Actually its a sleazy document as it does not make any reference to Real
Player Plus, the commercial variant, that Rob Glaser indicated was
"broken", which is true. It no longer works as it was designed.
Encountering real audio/video streams [4.0 and below] after installing
Windows Media Player, will result in the playing via the Windows Media
Player, instead of the Player Plus. In MS weasel speak, if a consumer
launches the Real Player products, manually, before encountering real
audio content, they still will work so MS did not break anything ...

For folks following the details, the "Plus" costs $30. And it records
and has higher quality sound and video [I can only attest to the
recording -- didn't seem like better sound ;-)]

MS has now called his statements "not in the interest of American
consumers." <shaking my head> Add that one to the MS Talking points ...

Lawrence