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INTERNET USERS CAN NOW ENJOY MOVIES ON-DEMAND & LIVE MUSIC WITH REALPLAYER SUPERPASS (ASIA PACIFIC EDITION)

SEATTLE — Aug. 14, 2006 — RealNetworks, Inc. today announced the availability of full-length movies, drama and reality series, and a library of thousands of live music and radio stations on RealPlayer (Asia Pacific edition). With RealPlayer you can now watch full-length movies online and listen to thousands of live music stations from around the world at one single, easy-to-use access point.

RealPlayer SuperPass (Asia Pacific edition) offers an extensive selection of movies, documentaries, and reality programmes that are beyond mainstream media channels. The user-friendly RealGuide helps users to explore an exclusive collection of action, comedy, thriller, drama, romance and reality movies. RealPlayer users can look forward to highly rated movies across these genres, such as Australian romantic hit 'Peaches; US comedy A-lister 'School of Life'; and the much talked about British reality series 'Love for Sale'.

"Users can now have access to compelling video and music content and extend it throughout their digital home," said Mr. Douglas Kaplan, VP for Asia of RealNetworks Inc. "RealPlayer SuperPass raises the benchmark in broadband entertainment services, and will help accelerate the availability and growth of premium content services in Asia."

"This is part of our strategy in rapidly expanding our digital entertainment services on RealPlayer across the Asia region." said Hunsen Law, Senior Director Asia Consumer Services. "RealNetworks — together with a local partner — introduced a localized Korean online football service featuring coverage of full-length matches and highlights of leading European tournaments such as the UEFA Champion's League. The service has been available in Korea since 2004 at www.football2.co.kr."

Experience Unparalleled Video Quality
The service includes a full-featured version of RealPlayer, which features the award-winning RealVideo 10 codec that enables streaming video at higher resolutions with lower bandwidth requirements. RealVideo 10 provides dramatically improved compression and reduces bandwidth costs while enabling high-quality, rich media experiences — smoother streaming, sharper and more enjoyable picture quality.

New Video Library Features
SuperPass Asia Pacific edition offers an even more extensive library of rich video content spanning full movie titles, reality programmes, documentary series and entertainment news. The library feature brings ease-of-use via intuitive access tabs, titles categorization, content synopsis and popularity rankings, and the ability to launch video snippets for preview before watching the full movie in high resolution.

Worldwide Live Music Search
RealPlayer also features RealAudio 10, a complete audio solution that can satisfy the demands of the most discriminating audiophile to the most "bandwidth challenged". Users can keep track of and listen to thousands of internet music and radio stations worldwide. With its easy-to-use search tool, users can select the internet radio of choice base on genre, language and country of origin. Members of the SuperPass Asia Pacific edition will have additional features enabled on the guide to show the popularity and availability of each station, thus providing members with additional information on the stations.

Games Downloads
On top of Movies & Music, there are casual downloadable games ranging from the maddening word puzzles of Super TextTwist to local family favorites, Super Mahjong. The games provided by RealArcade, the leading service for downloadable games, vary from classic board, puzzle and card games made for user-friendly PC users.

Availability
RealPlayer SuperPass Asia Pacific is now available in 12 countries across Asia including Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India , Malaysia and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.real.com.au.

ABOUT REALNETWORKS, INC.
RealNetworks, Inc. is the leading creator of digital media services and software including the Rhapsody service, the RealPlayer® 10, and casual PC games. RealNetworks has more than 2.4 million paid subscribers to its premium digital media services. 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' corporate information is located at http://www.realnetworks.com/company.

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