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Real Launches New Player, Music Store

Posted by simoniker on from the making-an-effort? dept.

kforeman writes "You may have heard Real's many announcements today, including the release of RealPlayer 10 with vastly improved codecs, as well as our new Music Store. As a result of the player engine being developed in the Helix community, we're able to offer the benefits of the new RealAudio and RealVideo in in the Helix Player for Linux. We read Slashdot here at Real, especially when the subject of our company or technology comes up, so we know some of you may not have liked recent versions of our player. This release represents a much friendlier direction for us; more options that were 'opt-out' are now 'opt-in'. In developing RealVideo 10, our codec team has been working closely with the Doom9 community, and has been posting updates to that forum (look for references to RV9-EHQ). The tests that have been performed by that community show RealVideo doing quite well against the competition." There's a CNET News article discussing the announcements, including the jukebox's ability to play "secure downloads from the iTunes store", for those looking for another point of view.

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  1. !!!!!!!!DO NOT CLICK ON PARENT'S LINK by ChrisN79 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hate people like you... you sick fuck.

    1. Re:!!!!!!!!DO NOT CLICK ON PARENT'S LINK by ChrisN79 · · Score: 0, Troll

      About 20 windows opened up with porn... and not good porn either.. unless your into pictures of the inside of someone's ass.

  2. There is nothing bad about the link. by pavon · · Score: 0, Troll

    It really is a link to wil weaton's website. Please give ChrisN79's karma a good what for.

  3. Re:Beware Realplayer... by gnu-sucks · · Score: 0, Troll

    We, we, we? Who are you? Who compromises the "we"??

    kforeman likely works for real networks.

    TW, I was unable to see the helix website because my browser said the security certificate did not match the name of who it was granted to.

    Either you are using a broken browser such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or you have neglected the "Accept once" button. I suggest you learn how to better use your internet browser before you complain about things you cannot possibly understand.

    As for the "spyware", I suggest you create a new user account, and make a chroot'd install of Real Player, and find out. It has been my experience that there are few "spyware" programs for the platforms I use. Perhaps your platform has these issues - if you are indeed using Microsoft Windows, then perhaps it is not the programs you have installed upon it, but rather, the operating system its self.

    Not to be a flame or anything, but please, RTFM!