


Glaser said that his aim is to have RealPlayer Cloud available on every device out there, including smart TVs, for “frustration free viewing no matter what device you have.” The service is accessible through apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire and Windows, plus via Google’s Chromecast or the Roku media streaming box connected to a TV. Localised versions in English, French, German and Spanish, with Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese will follow soon. RealPlayer Cloud was launched in North America five months ago, gaining 500,000 users already, but is now launching globally at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. ‘Frustration-free viewing no matter what device’ The founder and interim chief executive of RealNetworks returned to the company a year and half ago to reinvent the business. “Hit the button and it just works – we do all the transcoding, transmuxing, balancing of bitrate and bandwidth for you in the background, so whatever device you're viewing the content on the video just magically works,” Rob Glaser told the Guardian.
