You forgot the "net congestion" in front of "buffering..." It's not Real's fault -- the Internet just has a bad cold.

Oh yeah, and Quicktime streams never freeze due to network congestion, huh? Every time I've been watching QT movie trailers the first thing to do when the QT Player opens is to hit pause, as the software is so damn stupid that it practically never downloads a buffer long enough for uninterrupted playback before it starts to play it all by itself.

I hate Real's customer-harrassing policies as much as anyone -- they still require you to register for the download of RP10 for Win32 or OS X for example -- but th