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Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video

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RS Wood wrote:
>  From the "buffering ... buffering ... buffering" department:
> Title: RealPlayer reinvents itself as 'the Dropbox for video'
> Author: Samuel Gibbs

> Founder Rob Glaser has returned to RealPlayer and relaunched the veteran
> video company as a free hosting service. By Samuel Gibbs
> Samuel Gibbs[1]

Real may have been lousy software in a lot of ways, but the fact is they 
were able to deliver audio and some video over freaking dial-up 
connections, which is pretty impressive.  Their problem wasn't their 
technology, it was their business model.  They went "full retard" on the 
bundled-spyware, toolbar, invasive advertising route and it ruined their 
brand.  To this day - well over 14 years after the first time I used 
Realplayer - I'm able to make the 'buffering buffering' joke in 
relatively full confidence that people will get it.

*That said,* please give us an alternative to Youtube.  Ever since 
Google bought it, I've been avoiding it like it's syphilis.  I even skip 
links to youtube videos friends send: it's clear Google is keeping close 
tabs on every video I watch.  They don't deserve that information. 
Vimeo is decent, but bandwidth heavy (and I don't have much bandwidth). 
  If Real can take their bandwidth-conserving approach and give Youtube 
some competition, that would be good.

For that matter, recently even in good bandwidth situations, Youtube 
seems to bog down.  I don't know what they're doing, but they're doing 
it wrong.

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Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:12 +0000
  Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:39 +0000
    Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 23:40 +0100
      Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video Rob Myers <rob@robmyers.org> - 2014-03-03 08:20 +0000
        Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-03 19:38 +0000

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