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[JimH]

RealOne, World’s Second Universal Media Player?

Minneapolis, MN (August 29, 2002): Last week, RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), issued a press release announcing new features and support for additional media formats for their RealOne Player, and proclaimed it as “the world’s first universal media player." JRiver's MEDIA JUKEBOX software (www.mediajukebox.com) has supported the same formats and functionality for over a year, and claimed the world's first universal media player title back in May 2000.

The full press release is at: http://www.musicex.com/press/press45.html

[zevele1]

In such a case to who do you send the press release?

[JimH]

It went out an hour ago on www.bizwire.com .  I posted it to several forums -- hydrogen audio, winamp, and avsforum.

We will be grateful if you will help spread the news.

[zevele1]

You do not send it to Cnet,Zdnet and 'big' places like it?

[Cephlen]

PR firms are expensive... but do a nice job if you have the cash

[DocLotus]

Hi JimH;

I posted this a few days ago in another thread about RealOne but think it is still relevant...

I just downloaded the RealOne Player (free version) that is supposed to have all the neat new stuff. Guess what? It is the same exact player that I was using before I switched to MJ8; it is still version 2 which is over a year old. Yes it does WMA, but only after downloading a plug-in. No change there. So what’s the big deal? I did not download the $9.95 a month RealOne Player Plus with free media content, nor did I download the $19.95 one time charge RealOne Player Plus.

Looks like to me that Real is just trying to get some more mileage out of a dead horse (with a little slick advertising & maybe a few tweaks here & there). J River is constantly “tweaking” MJ8 (almost on a daily basis but they call a spade a spade). Real has the some old horse with new blinders (emphasis on blinders in case you didn’t get it).

So again, WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

I don’t know about you, but I am staying with MJ as it “does it all” right now without hype.

And just think, we have version 9 to look forward to. That should put Real in the “has-been” category as far as I’m concerned.

PS: RealOne still has lousy visualizations.
   LONG LIVE MJ!!