Real Networks Buys Xing
from the branching-out dept
Real Networks today announced that they've bought Xing who makes MP3 encoding software. Xing's software is extremely popular, and this was a surprise to me. I think this move has more bite to it and the announcement yesterday with IBM. That was PR value, this shows they're doing something. Now let's see what they do with Xing.
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Step 1: Stomp out MP3
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I agree that currently, Real's main focus is on "non-storable" media, but I think this move is:
1. To hedge their bets as to the future direction of Internet media.
2. Position themselves better to address a new form of e-commerce.
Maybe there will be two Internet media standards in the future - one for capture and one for plain listening/viewing. Sort of like like VHS and BetaMax - the question is: which format will be which?
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