Real PlayerMaybe you knew it as Real One, or Real Audio Player, or Real Player G2. Real was trying real hard to be the multimedia player of choice at the dawn of the Internet. Some people really preferred Real over Winamp for mp3's (although very few use either today). The real advantage of Real Player was it's ability to stream. Really nifty for the time. It was eventually replaced by Flash, and now, HTML 5.
Later, the program became a nuisance. It got bloated. Adware. Spyware. Etc. Eventually people started using Real Alternative instead of the actual Real Player. Even then, the .rm format was becoming a pain. The buffering for videos was just annoying. You didn't know if it crashed or if it was buffering. It was even worse if you were streaming.
All of that being said, I watched Dragon Ball Z on .rm. It was awful quality. It's much better to pay a few bucks and watch it in good quality. Plus, it'll help encourage the series to continue...whi
ch may or may not be a good thing.
Apparently, Real is still going. Personally, I don't mind it being off my computer. My goodness, look at that cluttered interface.