(Just about any other platform with a web browser can also log in to the RealPlayer Cloud site to stream video.) You get 2GB of storage for free, with additional storage starting at $4.99 a month. RealPlayer Cloud apps are available free today on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows PCs, and Roku. That takes much of the headache away from managing your video library, and it also makes it easier to share it with others. Plenty of services upload videos online, either for viewing on the web like YouTube or storage like DropBox, but Chasen says RealPlayer Cloud is unique in its capability to instantly convert videos to play properly on multiple devices. That’s what we’ve tried to do,” Jeff Chasen, RealNetworks’ vice president of product development, told me in a recent interview. “Sometimes the best ideas are about simplifying complexity. This time, instead of just giving you a way to view video on the web, RealNetworks wants to be the central hub for all of your personal videos. Today, years after RealNetworks‘ relevancy has seemingly dwindled away, it’s once again aiming to reinvent the way we watch videos online with RealPlayer Cloud, a new service that you use to upload video files to the company’s servers, instantly access them across all of your devices, and share them with your friends. It was tough to tell at the time, but those tiny videos we were squinting at were a window into the future. Long before the instant streaming of high-definition video became the norm on the web, there was RealNetworks’ RealPlayer. The videos were blurry, choppy, and took forever to load on a blazing 56k modem - but they had actual moving pictures, beamed down from the Internet.
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