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  1. Comment - Real Launches New Video Player Beta

    (Jun 26, 2007 - 10:30 PM)

    This is Ben Rotholtz, GM, Web Services & Syndication, Real.

    We have tried to take a very different approach with the new RealPlayer. Previous versions did get off-track and hurt the consumer experience - see http://www.realplayer.com/blog/ about Installations Gone Awry.

    You'll find that the new version is considerably faster -- everything from startup to video playback. We've streamlined the installation sequence, taking a cue from the way RealPlayer installation has worked on Linux and the Mac.

    With the new RealPlayer we've created a one-click simple process to time-s*** video for later playback - across tens-of-thousands of sites that contain video for the four most popular formats - Flash, Windows Media, QuickTime and Real. Our goal was to be unobtrusive.

    We've released the beta today - and we welcome your feedback at http://www.realplayer.com/blog It's a free download.

    Thanks in advance for the heads-up on any bugs you discover (e.g. the audio volume not working on Vista).
    yrs,