The Need for Speed
Real is trying to stake their claim on a broadband world. To do that, you will find them showing off clips that claim VHS quality at half screen resolution when running at 300kbps. I did not experience those kind of results with my 384kbps DSL line. But I was quite pleased with the streaming quality of a 220kbps "I Dreamed of Africa" movie preview. Those high speed DSL and Cable Modem options in RealProducer Plus show promise for a streaming future.

Video Filtering

The preferences offer filters and control over how the video is encoded.

More magic lies under the RealProducer Plus Preferences. Video pre-filtering gives you a little more control over the material that you are feeding the encoder. A Video Noise filter can hunt down digital distortions and a Resizing filter can take care of those problems that come with scaling down your source material during the encoding. For the film producer, an Inverse Telecine filter removes those unneeded frames added when converting 24fps film to 30fps video. A De-interlacing filter for PAL and NTSC rounds out the set.