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Taking this approach offers a number of advantages of other cloud video services, Glaser said, for example allowing different aspects of the platform to run in the background, integrating with other services (at least on Android), and making sure videos are viewable across platforms - so you’re not going to have moments where you try to share a video from your iPhone and then discover that your friends with Android can watch it. Glaser said that RealPlayer Cloud combines the company’s existing media player technology with a cloud backend.
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Instead, it’s about being able to view video content on any platform, including the TV (starting with Roku).
So RealPlayer Cloud isn’t just about mobile. He said the team started out by focusing on a few use cases, such as sharing longer videos among friends, but over time they realized this could be a broad platform: “We’ve a found that there’s a lot of problems where there’s resignation, because these problems seem like they’re inherent.” However, Glaser decided that this was an important area to pursue, regardless of business model (more on that in second). Specifically, he said there was nothing in development for iOS and Android, because the company’s existing business model didn’t apply to mobile. The final product will be released as a free basic version, and a more advanced version costing £19.99 allowing options such as burning the clips to DVD.RealNetworks is announcing a big expansion beyond its RealPlayer media player today with the launch of a new service called RealPlayer Cloud, which is supposed to make it easy for users to access and share their videos from any device.įounder and interim CEO Rob Glaser described this as “the biggest product release we’ve done in a long time.” Glaser returned to the CEO role last year, and he said that as he talked to team members, “We had this strong base of users on the PC, but we weren’t focused on the future.” Real hopes to take the product 'gold' in August 2007.
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Real is also working on future versions of the player to allow easy transfer of clips to major portable media players, and to allow scheduled and automatic downloading of clips based on channel selection and other criteria.Ī beta version of RealPlayer 11 will be available to the public at the end of June as a 30MB download. Piers Heaton-Armstrong, general manager at RealNetworks, told that the firm has been working with DRM developers to ensure that users will not be able to save clips with DRM embedded.
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However, the new functionality raises serious piracy implications around being able to download and save clips from the web. The original URL will be embedded into the downloaded video allowing users to direct others back to the original source of the clip. "For online video fans, the ability to capture, store and forward content is going to be transformative." "Time-shifting of recorded or downloaded content is a natural next step in the progression of online video distribution and consumption," said Michael McGuire, vice president of Gartner. The plug-in currently works with Internet Explorer and Firefox, but the company has promised support for other platforms and browsers. "By floating a 'download this video' button next to video seen on thousands of sites, RealPlayer makes it one-click simple." "The new RealPlayer gives consumers more control of internet video than ever before," said Rob Glaser, chairman and chief executive at RealNetworks. Support has not yet been confirmed for DivX and Xvid. RealPlayer 11 has been in development for nearly three years, and supports most major formats including Real, Windows Media, Flash and QuickTime.Ĭlips are downloaded in their native format where possible, or saved in a new Real format dubbed Internet Video Recording (.ivr). Users can download clips and watch them offline, or burn them to CD or DVD.
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