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Digital entertainment services company RealNetworks and its subsidiary, RealNetworks Home Entertainment, Inc., issued the following statement:

"In response to threats made by the major movie studios, RealNetworks this morning plans to file an action for a declaratory judgment against DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., NBC Universal, Inc., Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., and Viacom, Inc., in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit asks the court to rule that RealNetworks Home Entertainment, Inc.'s RealDVD software, made available to consumers today at www.realdvd.com, fully complies with the DVD Copy Control Association's license agreement.

RealNetworks Home Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of digital entertainment services company RealNetworks, announced the immediate consumer availability of RealDVD, the critically acclaimed PC application that allows consumers to easily save their DVDs to their computers. Available for download from www.realdvd.com for the introductory price of $29.99, RealDVD provides consumers with a simple way to save, organize and watch their favorite DVDs on their PCs and on the go. RealDVD gives consumers the same rights for their personal DVDs they have enjoyed for more than a decade with CDs: the ability to make a digital copy for playback later without the disc.

Envivio, Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced a new agreement which enables digital entertainment services company RealNetworks to resell the Envivio 4Caster Mobile Series hardware encoding platform. The platform includes the real-time M2 and M4 encoders and 4Manager redundancy system. The agreement enables RealNetworks to offer a complete carrier grade mobile streaming solution.

"Mobile TV streaming is moving to the next level. The continued uptake of mobile streaming services makes it clear that we now need to offer our customers an encoding solution that provides the very highest levels of compression, performance, and service availability," said Scott MacKenzie, Director of Mobile Solutions at RealNetworks. "The 4Caster Mobile Series platform provides us with that solution. Ever since our collaboration began in 2002, Envivio has repeatedly demonstrated that it's fully committed to supporting RealNetworks and our customers."

Digital entertainment services company RealNetworks announced the consumer availability of its new RealPlayer after a five-month public beta period. Originally debuting at The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference in June 2007 to rave reviews from beta testers and press alike, the new RealPlayer is the first mainstream media player that lets consumers download and record video from thousands of Web sites.

As part of the RealPlayer Plus package, users can now transfer downloaded video content to the Apple iPod Nano, iPod Classic and iPod Video. iPod owners who previously only had access to video content available through Apple iTunes now have access to non-DRM protected videos from thousands of sites on the Web.

Real will extend the popular and simple one-click download feature in the new RealPlayer to a global audience by the end of November with the availability of localized versions for nine additional languages. In addition, a beta version of the new RealPlayer for Mac users is now available and allows the downloading of non-DRM protected Web videos from thousands of sites for playback online or offline.