Yes, this comes from Apple’s marketing department, but the fact that last year more people downloaded QuickTime than RealPlayer is encouraging. QuickTime has always been better quality and RealPlayer is ugly and full of bugs.

Now if everyone would just download Pageot and use the correct QuickTime
<object> and <embed> tags in their code. Me included.

Pageot is an incredibly useful freeware tool for generating proper HTML embedding code for the QuickTime plugin. When this code is used, missing QuickTime components will be downloaded and installed automatically.