America Online chooses Real Networks for multimedia
America Online will use Real System 8 on different spots in her netservice. The Real Player is built in in version 6.0 of the AOL-software. All 23 million AOL-users get sent this software later on this year.
It is for the first time that RealPlayer becomes gentegreerd in someone else program. “Users can Real-content immediately from their AOL-client play”, according to Am Rotholtz of Real Networks.
AOL will use the Real-technology for the entire multimedia-offer, of narrow tie till broad tie. Officially hotly the Real Player the 'preferred rich content player'. AOL will offer with Real System 8 also interactive services.
As a something in return, Real her Real Player sofware will bundle with software of AOL. As someone can raises easily subscribe that Real Player on AOL.
Real System 8 became in May gentroduceerd. The system offers better compressie of data then earlier versions. Also the sounds and videokwaliteit is progressed. Earlier relevant messages: RealNetworks-senior official foresees end of Napster (29 June 2000) kapitaal injection for largest streaming media network (22 June 2000) Shareholders behind merger AOL and Tim Warner (26 June 2000)