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To: Mark Palmberg who wrote (24228)	4/20/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Adam Nash	Respond to of 213177

Crazy. Check this out: news.com Notice that RNWK stock went up 54 points today. Incredible.

To: Mark Palmberg who wrote (24228)	4/20/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: soup	Respond to of 213177

UK Register article: RNWK vs. AAPL >Apple has two key weapons to take to the fight with Real. First, there's image quality. Apple has been working on QuickTime for rather longer than Real has been developing its own software, and its core playback technology, with its support for numerous compression standards, video and animation formats, and performance tweaks, give QuickTime a real edge here. That's the advantage of leveraging a video technology into streaming, rather than the other way round. Real has focused its efforts on getting the streaming to work in low-bandwidth environments -- as bandwidth has increased, it's had more time to devote to improving the playback quality. Apple, on the other hand, has got the quality off pat and has been able to sit and wait for the bandwidth to catch up. To use that bandwith, Apple has based QuickTime 4.0's streaming facilities on two standard protocols, RTP (Real Time Protocol) and RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol). There are some important technological issues here that may act against Apple -- both protocols aren't designed to operate across firewalls and have problems with networks that share a single IP address through a shared modem -- and lack the fine-tuning you get with a proprietary technology like Real's G2.< theregister.co.uk cc. SI/RNWK