Re:Great! (Score 1)

Well for real working examples of low-rate video codecs, with bitrates down to 17kbps, have a look at:

http://www.forbidden.co.uk/videos/

They use a player written entirely in Java, so no huge extra downloads required and it should work in all browsers (well I've only tried IE...) And the picture size is fairly decent as well... Only downside is that quality isnt amazing, but what do you expect in 17kbps? :-) Just wait for the realtime streaming video banner ads (NOOOOO......)