“We’re excited to bring RealPlayer Cloud to consumers worldwide. In just five short months, we’ve experienced extensive user growth and now have more than 500,000 users in the U.S. and Canada,†said Rob Glaser, founder and interim CEO of RealNetworks. “Clearly there is a real need and demand for RealPlayer Cloud, which is essentially Dropbox for videos.â€
If you don’t know what the heck we are talking about, then here is the skinny. RealPlayer Cloud is an app that was released by RealNetworks Inc. The services is geared specifically towards allowing you to upload videos to the cloud for easy streaming, sharing and casting. It supports all major mobile device OS’s along with your PC, Roku and Chromecast devices. It supports all the popular file formats FLV, WMV, MKV, DIVX, XVID, MOV, AVI and MP4.
The app is free, but only offers you 2GB of free storage. You can earn more space by referring your friends, 1GB per friend. The updated global app also offers SMS capabilities. This allows you to share that video link to your friends and family via a text instead of the original method, email. The receiver of the video link doesn’t have to have RealPlayer Cloud to watch it, so don’t worry about Mom. If she can open a text or email and click a link she is set.
They now support French, German and Spanish with Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese coming soon. Head over to Real.com for info about the service and pick up the Android app down below.
Press Release Below
REALPLAYER CLOUD NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE
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SEATTLE, Feb. 24, 2014 – RealNetworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNWK) today announced the global roll-out of RealPlayer® Cloud, allowing users to easily move, watch and share videos on any device or operating system, anywhere in the world. Consumers can now use RealPlayer Cloud on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 8 Modern UI, Windows, Kindle Fire, Roku and Chromecast.
“We’re excited to bring RealPlayer Cloud to consumers worldwide. In just five short months, we’ve experienced extensive user growth and now have more than 500,000 users in the U.S. and Canada,†said Rob Glaser, founder and interim CEO of RealNetworks. “Clearly there is a real need and demand for RealPlayer Cloud, which is essentially Dropbox for videos.â€
The amount of video being captured on smartphones and tablets is exploding, yet not all platforms and devices get along. With RealPlayer Cloud, consumers no longer need to worry about converting videos, or carrying HDMI and USB cables to connect devices to each other to watch videos. RealPlayer Cloud simply works across all devices, including TVs connected with Chromecast. RealPlayer Cloud is powered by SurePlayTM, a revolutionary cloud technology from RealNetworks, which enables seamless auto-formatting of videos to fit the device type, size of screen, available bandwidth, and storage space of any device.
With today’s international launch, people around the world can privately share videos with their friends and family in other countries – even if their loved ones don’t yet have RealPlayer Cloud downloaded. If a video has wider appeal, people can easily share with their social network on Facebook or Twitter.
In addition to the global expansion, RealPlayer Cloud has added new features, including:
- ·         “Refer-a-Friendâ€: Now available globally, users can earn 1 gigabyte of free space for each friend who creates a RealPlayer Cloud account. The friend also receives an extra 1 gigabyte of free space.
- ·         SMS Text Capabilities: iOS and Android app users can now easily send videos – reformatted in the cloud for all devices – via SMS text message, in addition to email.
RealPlayer Cloud offers 2 gigabytes of cloud storage for free to all users and provides additional storage through subscription plans that start at $4.99 per month. In addition to English, the app is now available in French, German and Spanish. Versions in Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese are coming soon. Visit Real.com for more information on RealPlayer Cloud.
