Realvideo is pants, it's quite clear. Whether you go for modem friendly or big chunky files the quality is horribly blocky, often illegible and generally not even worth the bother.
It seems foolish to me that we continue to use it when it's stopping us get our message accross. I for one would find good quality video extremely useful for the video art i perform in mainstream nightclubs, but quite apart from that i'm in possession of a projector meaning its perfectly easy for me to put on free activist video nights, whether in community centres, festivals or free parties.. but what's the point when people won't be able to see what's on the screen?

I *really* think that we should move accross to DiVX - it's no longer an illegal, hacked codec having been rebuilt from scratch, it's opensource, fantastic, crispy dvd-like quality yet in tiny filesizes. If you're worried about some users being unable to watch it as they don't know where to find the codec (?!) then surely even Windows Media player would be better - sure it's bowing down to an 'orrible monopolist corporation but at least we'd be able to see whats going on?

IT would also help projects like the European Newsreal - no more being sent scratchy vcds or vhs, people could just pop on the site and download the full, near dv quality video themselves if they have the capabilities, spreading the word futher, and of course u can hang on to the vhs/vcds for those without the bandwith.

make sense?