Real Nuisance (Real Player Basic)

Member Name: Cinders

Product:	Real Player Basic
Date:	15/08/00 (84 review reads)
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Advantages: It's easy to use

Disadvantages: it frazzled my computer

Being a music fan, I find myself most nights, listening to the latest releases on the Internet. When I started to search for music and video clips I soon found out that I needed Real Player. Most sites have their multimedia in Real format, so I went to the Real site and downloaded the player.

No sooner had I installed it I had trouble. The player kept freezing up, or would not come on at all. Thinking it was my computer I uninstalled Real Player and set it up again. The same thing happened.

My whole system kept freezing and in the end I had to do a complete re-install. After a month or so of my computer running as sweet as a nut, I found myself needing Real Player, even though Windows Media Player is better it's not as widely used. So I went through the whole procedure again.

I am now sitting here with a Real Player that works when it feel like it, and a Real Juke box that doesn't work at all, and a system that won't shut down properly.

Real Player is a fantastic piece of software, if it works, opening up all kinds of multimedia to you, I just wish that all sites would include their streaming audio and video in both Real and Windows format.

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