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The rich typographic and image capability of the World Wide Web vastly improves on traditional 12-point text, but like Pavlov's dogs at the sound of a bell, users and content […]

The Linux versions of RealNetworks' popular RealPlayer and Helix Player can be used by attackers to load malicious code onto systems, several security organizations reported Tuesday. Both RealPlayer 10.x and […]

SEATTLE - During the past month, RealNetworks has hyped its new Helix Platform that is said to deliver multiple streaming media formats from a server to a client, including the […]

Buckaroo Banzai sweeps in to save Penny Priddy and retrieve his oscillation overthruster from the evil Lord John Whorfin just in time to save the Earth from ... Wait a […]

For all practical purposes, when it comes to deciding on back-end technology for delivering movies digitally, there are two meaningful formats: Microsoft's Windows Media Video and RealNetworks' RealSystem IQ. Both […]

quick: Which Media Player does Real XML? Which streaming media system supports XML better? And what difference does that make to the adoption of streaming media systems within corporations? There […]

Apple, Microsoft, and RealNetworks recently updated their free media players. Here's how they stack up. QuickTime 5RealJukebox 2 BasicRealPlayer 8 BasicWindows Media Playerfor Windows XP Compatible File Types(Selected)MP3, WAV, MIDI, […]

Highlights * You don't have to spend a penny on video software. Apple, Microsoft and Real Networks are so desperate for market share that they give their client software away […]

With video, the technology ramp-up to get to streaming bliss far outpaces the actual need for all the work. Eventually, the content will get better, and we'll all be ready […]

Although RealNetworks Inc. is currently the leader in streaming media market share, it faces several competitors, the biggest of which is Microsoft Corp. and its Windows Media Technologies. Since Microsoft […]

NOW THAT Microsoft's free Windows Media Player 7 combines a media player and a music jukebox, is there any reason to use RealNetworks' RealPlayer 8? You bet While its playback […]

Last week, I put together some video clips for my daughter's Web page. I used the Real Video encoder to create the RealVideo content, but because the quality was so […]

As visitors to www.eWEEK.com know, we are one of the early users of Webcast technology to deliver technology news. Check out www.eWEEK.com/webcast to see what we've done. Be sure to […]

MICROSOFT WANTS TO BE YOUR INTERNET ENTERTAINMENT PORTAL. So DOES REALNETWORKS. WHICH IS BEST? You plop a music CD in your PC. It plays. You download, a video clip from […]

DEMONSTRATING capabilities beyond those of a vehicle for MTV to break the latest Britney Spears video, streaming media is becoming a way for more and more midsize and large companies […]

Although it can't alleviate problems such as Net bottlenecks, the new RealPlayer 7 Plus from RealNetworks does offer several features that make it easier to find, view, and listen to […]

STREAMING MEDIA Despite Internet bandwidth limitations and lag time, Real Networks continues to raise the bar for quality in streaming media players. The company's latest version, RealPlayer 7, not only […]

So your CEO has informed you he wants to flash his million-dollar smile weekly on every desktop across the WAN. Time to figure out if the network can support such […]

All the programs we've reviewed here will let you do enough of the basics to get a simple site up and running. If you want to produce something with a […]

Instead of herding groups of employees into your company's audiovisual department for training, marketing presentations and enterprise-wide speeches, why not deliver the same video content directly to their computers and […]

These products' clients are as different as the servers. Because you can use any multimedia client to view video produced by any of the servers we looked at, as long […]

Ever since Apple Computer pioneered digital video with its QuickTime technology in the early 1990s, people have been looking at jerky, postage- stamp-sized images on their computer screens. Lately, these […]

A PLAYER WITH REAL PROBLEMS TO WATCH AND LISTEN TO RealSystem G2 content, you need the free RealPlayer G2 or the $30 RealPlayer Plus G2. Both comprise a player application […]

Unlike media like AVI files that need to be fully downloaded before playing back, streaming media plays back in real time -- or near real time -- over a network. […]

Pros: Ubiquitous file format support; SMIL support; multitude of playback features; detailed stream information. Cons: Various plug-ins needed for playing back all supported formats; can't resize Window by dragging. Verdict: […]

Regardless of how you intend to distribute your video, there'll come a point when you'll need to convert the raw footage that you've acquired into a polished and contiguous sequence. […]

As MP3 rewrites the rules of music distribution, we take a close look at three of the leading music players THE DARK-HORSE SUCCESS OF MP3 has demonstrated the potential of […]

WE TESTED three technologies that deliver audio and video via the same HTTP server that puts up your Web pages. Although it's convenient, HTTP streaming has its shortcomings: Playback typically […]

RealNetworks' G2 player offers improved control of content Realnetworks' Realplayer G2 Preview Release allows users to easily capture, categorize and control streaming content--valuable capabilities for any company that uses the […]

Since the early days of the Internet, users have been enthralled with promises of broadcast-quality streaming video delivered to the desktop. Although streaming video is still questionable, it is improving. […]

FREE The free version of RealNetworks RealOne Player is still the media player most commonly found on home user systems despite complaints over the last year of so that the […]