I seriosly liked version 6(?) better.. It was just a simple player and it let you open multiple files at once to let them load from internet sites while you go about doing something else.
Then again, with all my players I liked the old versions a heck of a lot better than the new one's.
Real Player = Good until they decided to upgrade and be called Real One Player.
Quicktime = Well.. it's an apple product so..

But it's ok at my current version of the 2004 light. (Upgrade?? why??)
Winamp = I still have the best version on my computer. (2.77 or so) The new one sux. All I use Winamp for is for my mp3's not videos.
Windows Media Player = Currently I am stuck with version 8. It has that new bad looking inteface and it sucks. No one button hot keys for play and pause, and just way too much of a media player for how I use it.
Bottom line. The new features on these media players I can do without.