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Technology Lifestyle Will Real face any lawsuits for new video recorder?
Technology Lifestyle Will Real face any lawsuits for new video recorder? | Will Real face any lawsuits for new video recorder? |
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| Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 02 June 2007 | |
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RealNetworks are billing it as “the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites”, allowing you to save most types of video that haven’t been marked as copyright or non-downloadable to your computer, and then burn them to CD as a Video CD (which are compatible with virtually all DVD players) with the free Real Player (and to DVD with the paid Real Player Plus) and by sharing the video links with friends as is more commonly done. In addition to the Adobe FLV format as used by YouTube, Real promise that “most major formats are supported, including Real, Windows Media, Flash, and Quicktime”. While the upcoming version won’t automatically transfer your saved videos to your portable mobile devices, Real are promising this for a future version. Rob Glaser, founder, chairman and CEO of Real, said that: “The new RealPlayer gives consumers more control of Internet video than was ever possible before. By floating a "download this video" button next to video seen on thousands of Web sites, RealPlayer makes it one-click simple. The new RealPlayer is a major step towards realizing our vision of bringing great digital entertainment to more people on more screens around the world”. Michael McGuire, VP of Gartner, said that: “Time-shifting of recorded or downloaded content is a natural next step in the progression of the online video distribution and consumption. For online video fans, the ability to capture, store and forward content is going to be transformative.” The new Real Player has a range of other handy features. One is the ability to open multiple instances of Real Player at the same time, letting you save multiple videos at once, saving time. If you’re watching a video, and half way through decide you want to record it, just pressing record will ensure that the entire video clip is saved to your hard disk. RealPlayer won’t download videos protected by DRM, has a new ‘look and feel’ and faster video playback after pressing ‘play’. Windows users will get RealPlayer first and promises to work with both Internet Explorer and Firefox, with Mac users due to get the new recording Real Player later this year. So, is Real Player still all that popular today? What's the brief Real Player history, and could they get sued? Please read onto page 2 for the conclusion. |
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