MWC 2014: RealNetworks reveals ‘Dropbox for videos’

Parent Category: News | 24-02-2014

In what it hopes is a return to form in the media industry, RealNetworks has announced the global roll-out of its RealPlayer Cloud product, enabling users to move, watch and share videos on any device or operating system, anywhere.

The new product aims to tap into a world where there has been what the company calls an explosion of video capture across a variety of devices but whereby “not all platforms and devices get along.” To that end, users of the new system can access the RealPlayer Cloud service on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 8 Modern UI, Windows, Kindle Fire, Roku and Chromecast. RealPlayer Cloud offers 2GB of cloud storage for free to all users and provides additional storage through subscription plans that start at $4.99 per month.

The system is powered by SurePlay cloud technology which is claimed to enable seamless auto-formatting of videos to fit the device type, size of screen, available bandwidth and storage space of any device.

“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 US and Canada,” explained 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.”