Petteri Pyyny
20 May 2002 12:06
According to analyst study published on last week, RealNetworks is on its way to reach "magic" number of 1M subscribers with its premium-rate subscription service.
Real's subscription service, which has been rebranded various times and currently is dubbed as "SuperPass", costs anywhere between $9.95 and $19.95 a month and includes premium rate content from NBA, Major League Baseball, CNN as well as music content from MusicNet.
According to report, a whopping 85% of all streaming media content available on the Web currently is encoded and delivered using Real's RealAudio and RealVideo technology. This is remarkable specially because all of us, video freaks, know "good" their widely-used video and audio codecs are in terms of quality.