RealNetworks Gets in Content Business
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RealNetworks Inc. survived the dot-com collapse and an assault from Microsoft Corp. Now it's trying to remake itself into a provider of paid Internet content.
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RealNetworks Inc. on Thursday said the three-week cut-rate promotion on its online music store garnered sales of more than 3 million songs.
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[Seattle | Reuters News Service, 10 September 2004] - RealNetworks is ending its 49c-per-song music download service but will keep the promotional prices in place for top 10 songs, the Internet media and software company said yesterday.
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In its continuing effort to move away from its roots as a popular method for the decentralized transfer of pirated content, BitTorrent said Monday it had launched a new content network with the help of several television and movie studios.
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Google Inc.  has extended  a multi-year deal with RealNetworks Inc.  to promote  Google software across Real's entertainment and multimedia  products, the companies said on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - The growing popularity of video on the Web has prompted RealNetworks to launch a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs. The software, RealPlayer version 11, can be downloaded free, the company said Tuesday. With the new version, users can surf the Web and select clips or longer videos by clicking a "Download this video" icon that pops up whenever they view video content. Videos are downloaded in the background, allowing users to view the content not only at their own convenience but also on the full screen of their PCs, according to RealNetworks spokesman Ryan Luckin. Moreover, users don't have to worry about knowing video formats, Luckin said. The new version records online video in all major formats, including Flash, Windows Media, and QuickTime. In addition, it recognizes video content protected by DRM systems and blocks such content from being recorded. RealNetworks plans additional features, including an option to allow video content to be downloaded to portable devices, such as iPods, according to Luckin. With the free version of RealPlayer, users can burn videos to CDs in the VCD (video compact disc) format. For $29.99, users can purchase RealPlayer Plus, which allows them to burn to DVDs.
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(InfoWorld) - On Thursday afternoon at the D: All Things Digital show, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser demoed a new version of RealPlayer, to be released as a beta in June, that adds the ability to download video that's normally available only as a stream from Web sites and save it to your hard drive for later playback in RealPlayer. There's nothing earth-shaking about that -- utilities like KeepVid and the Firefox extension Video Downloader have offered similar functionality for quite awhile. But Real is aiming for something close to universal compatibility: It says its feature will work with video in Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, and its own Real formats. And the mere fact that such a widely-used program is offering this capability may make it more mainstream. Sometime after the initial release, Glaser said, it'll follow up with a version that allows you to sync the videos you've downloaded onto an iPod. Walt Mossberg asked Glaser a question that I wondered about instantly myself: Is this all legal? Glaser said that Real respects DRM if it's there and won't let you download copy-protected video. As for non-protected video, he said that Real takes no stance -- it's up to the user to ensure that he or she is using the product for legal purposes. In other words, I'm still not sure whether it's kosher to download and preserve, say, a copyrighted clip from YouTube. But the chances that anyone will come after you if you're only doing it for personal use are presumably slim. Real's implementation of this idea looked slick in the demo: When it finds a video it can save, a little button appears over the video window. Click on it, and you can download. If you're one of those people who thinks of RealPlayer as a program that's hard to download and install and that mucks up your system in various ways, the new version may still be worth investigating: Glaser says getting and using it will be a smoother process, although he didn't provide details. To be fair to Real, its current version is already no more irritating than a heck of a lot of other free applications.
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RealNetworks Inc.'s shares rose more than 20 percent Monday after a published report touted the company's subscription music offering.
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MTV Networks said it would fold its floundering digital music service into a venture with RealNetworks, owner of the Rhapsody music subscription service.
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One week after the announcement of significant price reductions, the Real Networks is already able to show impressive results. Since they began selling music for US$0.
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MacCentral - RealNetworks will tout its new Windows-only Harmony technology, which allows files from its music store to be played on Apple's iPod, in a series of print, radio and online advertising, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. In addition, Real will hold what it calls the biggest music sale in history selling songs for US&#36;0.49 and albums for &#36;4.99.
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RealNetworks said on Thursday the  newest version of its digital music player would allow users to  save Internet video -- like those found on YouTube -- for  viewing at a later time.
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RealNetworks really knows how to pick a fight. First, the Seattle-based company landed a sucker punch on Apple Computer last month with its new Harmony technology that allows songs sold from Real's online music store to play on Apple's iPod digital music player.
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Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) was outraged when RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) first announced its intentions to go after its iTunes and iPod market share. It should not have been: Its customers, apparently, are more than willing to go to bat for Apple.
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RealNetworks says it sold more than three million tracks thanks to an aggressive three-week price promotion in the US. The company halved the cost of tracks to 49 cents in mid-August to try to tempt consumers away from Apple&#39;s iTunes music store.
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RealNetworks finds a partner in Yahoo! Music.