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To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (2839)	4/20/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: Pruguy	Respond to of 5843

BAM: bcst and rnwk use to be like family....now all bcst does is push the media player and doesn't even post a link to rnwk results....seems like egos have gotten in the way of good broadcasting....I imagine it will come back to bite bcst...no one needs to burn bridges, especially with rnwk...it goes both ways with these 2 does anyone know how to get a link to the cc.....the link on rnwk's page doesn't seem to be working

To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (2839)	4/20/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5843

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/AAPL