

Choice is good after all, right? WHY CAN’T ANYONE GET VIDEO RIGHT? And that is perhaps a good thing for many other reasons.

But, we all know that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are just not going to let that happen. Moving videos between devices would have been easy if everyone had the same kind of phone, the same kind of tablet and the same kind of computer. kids in diapers, goofy frat boy stuff) that are only meant for the select few. However, for every video that we upload to those sites, there are many more that we are not comfortable putting up for everyone to see.

There are millions of videos uploaded to YouTube and Facebook every day. We like to record videos on our smartphone, send to our family and friends, and watch the same videos on PC’s, tablets, smartphones, and TV’s. They are turning into creators of videos – both short and long. The really interesting thing is that consumers are not just consumers in the true sense. Here’s a chart from research conducted by Comscore and Jumptap. That would imply that this trend is going to continue and magnify in the coming years.Īlso, consumers are splitting time between the devices they own. And if you look at the data carefully, you will find that multi-device ownership skews younger. So, I guess there is no such thing as a single-device user any more. Our team has done some research on the devices that people own and we found some interesting results. We have now evolved to not only carry laptops on our person, but also smartphones and tablets. We watch our videos on many screens like digital TVs, projectors, in-car DVD players and so on. THE RISE OF THE MULTI-DEVICE CONSUMERįast forward to 2013. They were right – VHS players are now almost extinct. They were afraid that if they did not do so, all their precious memories and video collections would soon be lost. Remember in the early 2000’s, people were tirelessly converting their old VHS tapes to DVDs. We’re finding ourselves in the midst of this decade’s “tape-to-digital”- like crisis. Ever had trouble sending a video from your iPhone to others? Ever seen this error? Now, if there is anything more painful, it would be the process of sending long videos from phones (and I mean the smart ones) to other people. Why didn’t I have that video on my iPad and Galaxy S4? I would never tire of watching it. It was so exciting and exasperating to see that video from 2 years ago. Think about it – When was the last time you watched that video of your kids on the beach from 5 years ago? Or that video of your epic bathroom project that is stuck in that folder in the corner of your hard drive? I recently saw a video of my then 3-year old son reciting the entire “ The OK Book” from memory (even before he had started reading). Even the really important memorable ones. We would accidentally rediscover these videos once in a while and be surprised why it had taken this long.
Realtimes cloud tv#
If you have an Apple TV and an iPhone or iPad running the RealTimes app, when you're watching a video on the same home Wi-Fi network, just tap the AirPlay icon that appears next to the volume button in the RealTimes app.Once upon a time, in a land not too far away, videos used to be trapped on the devices they were stored on, with no way to be easily shared or viewed on other devices. There is also a RealPlayer Cloud app for the Xbox One. We have stopped supporting Amazon Fire TV app. Read more about using RealPlayer Cloud with Roku here. Having trouble with Chromecast? Check these troubleshooting tips.
Realtimes cloud Pc#
From your PC or Mac, you can go to, and the Chromecast option should appear when you are playing a video from the site (assuming your Chromecast device is active). Can I use RealTimes/RealPlayer Cloud with Chromecast, Apple TV, or other online TV services?Ī Chromecast option is available in the Android, iOS, Kindle and web versions of RealTimes.
