Helix Powered RealPlayer is the all-in-one digital media player that lets you find anything and play everything. Now also includes an option during setup to install the Real Toolbar for Internet Explorer.
It's social. It's portable. It's Free. Looking for a media player that works seamlessly with your iPod/iPhone, Blackberry or game system? Check out RealPlayer® SP. It even lets you share video with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Reviewing 1.1.4 Build 12.0.0.756 (Jun 24, 2010)
Beware if you use Firefox 3.6.4.
This will NO LONGER WORK with the new Firefox.
This always seems to happen hen Firefox puts out a new update, it takes a while for Real to catch up.
Reviewing 1.1.3 Build 12.0.0.658 (Mar 31, 2010)
RealPlayer SP has improved so drasticly compared to the older versions, its light on resources, doesn't install any spyware or adware plus it has so many great features and doesn't overtake file types without your permission.
highly recommended
Reviewing 1.1 Build 12.0.0.591 (Feb 19, 2010)
According to their blog, SP 1.1 adds video trimming...
http://realnetworksblog.com/
Reviewing 1.0.5 (Jan 21, 2010)
I listen to a lot of livestreams, especially the BBC radio five live.
They broadcast on .asx(wmp) and .ram streams but I always use the .ram streams using RealPlayer.
With the right speakers, the sound quality even at 64kpbs is immensely better.
Its a decent application that does what it promises. period. The only reason it wont get my 5 stars, is you 'd still expected to pay some $$$ to get its full features.
Otherwise. functional stuff.
Reviewing 1.0.5 (Nov 30, 2009)
Let's see: Not bloated, but it gives you the ability to download .flv from sites such as Youtube, save them, and view them.
Four!
Reviewing 1.0 Build 12.0.0.301 (Oct 25, 2009)
By far the best video player on the market. Bar none.
Reviewing 1.0 Build 12.0.0.297 (Sep 1, 2009)
Still the best. For people who give this a bad review (and of course have not installed and tried this) stop it. To think that quicktime or WMP is remotely better is total bs.
Reviewing 1.0 Build 12.0.0.297 (Aug 27, 2009)
how the mighty fall. Real player was once the dominant media player for live content, but their stealth spyware downloads, their bloated apps and the sheer arrogance of the company had led to their demise. I'm truly suprised they're still going.
This player is.... poor. there are a lot of better free alternatives around - a lot!.
This is another example of how greed and the ability to annoy your customer base and then ignore their wishes leads to the your demise.
The soon real player and real network die the better.
Reviewing 1.0 Build 12.0.0.297 (Aug 26, 2009)
Wow, you've got to love a program that cannot play it's own content once installed. Okay, it could play the content AFTER I downloaded yet more codecs for it to use. That's ridiculous though, the default install should have been able to play realmedia WITHOUT need to installed more bits.
Reviewing 1.0 Build 12.0.0.297 (Aug 26, 2009)
Yet another new skin for RealPlayer 6.0; I feel sorry for websites that ar still stuck in a contract with Real. At least the BBC is now switching to AAC in Flash for most of their streams.
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