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REALNETWORKS RELEASES FINAL VERSION OF REALPLAYER 10, THE WORLD’S FIRST FREE MEDIA PLAYER SUPPORTING ALL MAJOR FORMATS
New Player Now Available in North America, Europe and Japan
Major Content Owners Embrace RealPlayer 10 and Real 10 Platform
SEATTLE, WA — April 07, 2004 — RealNetworks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), the leading creator of digital media services and software, today announced the final release of RealPlayer® 10, the first free media player that enables consumers to play content in any of the major Internet media formats, including RealAudio®, RealVideo®, AAC, Windows Media, QuickTime MPEG-4 and MP3. Released in "beta" form on January 7th in the U.S. only, the final version of RealPlayer 10 is now available in North America, Europe (German and English versions) and Japan with additional international versions scheduled to launch later this summer.
RealNetworks also announced that several new partners, including Air America Radio, Car Talk from NPR, Movielink and Virgin Radio, have joined the more than 50 content and technology companies already supporting RealPlayer 10 and the Real™ 10 platform (see related press releases issued today.)
"Since the product’s initial public release, consumers and reviewers have enthusiastically embraced RealPlayer 10 because they finally have a single product that works with their favorite portable devices and plays all the great free and premium content they find online," said Richard Wolpert, Chief Strategy Officer, RealNetworks, Inc.
The free RealPlayer 10 is the easiest and friendliest RealPlayer ever, and offers consumers:
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Support for every major media format and the ability to play music from all of the major online music stores; |
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An integrated music download store with more than 500,000 tracks encoded in 192 Kb/s AAC audio, delivering the highest quality audio of any download store (U.S. version only); |
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The ability to fast forward and rewind within streams without delay, and to pause live streams; |
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The best quality streaming video and audio ever through RealVideo® 10, RealAudio® 10 with AAC; |
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Support for over 50 portable music devices, including the iPOD, palmOne Treo 600 and Creative Zen NX; |
RealPlayer 10 is available for immediate download in North America, Europe and Japan at www.real.com. Consumers can download a basic free version of RealPlayer 10, upgrade to the premium version of RealPlayer 10, or get a combination of the premium version of RealPlayer 10 and enhanced content services such as RadioPass and SuperPass through a monthly subscription.
For More Information:
Maureen (Moe) Farley, RealNetworks, 206-892-6653, mfarley@real.com
Matt Graves, RealNetworks, 415-934-2159, mgraves@real.com
ABOUT REALNETWORKS
RealNetworks, Inc. is the leading creator of digital media services and software including the award-winning Rhapsody® Internet jukebox service and RealPlayer 10, the first product to integrate finding, organizing, buying, playing and managing digital audio and video in a single product. Consumers can access and experience audio/video programming and download RealNetworks’ consumer software at http://www.real.com. Broadcasters, network operators, media companies and enterprises use RealNetworks’ products and services to create and deliver digital media to PCs, mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. RealNetworks’ systems and corporate information is located at http://www.realnetworks.com.
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