RealPlayer at the Dew Tour!

We are in the middle of a four day session at the last stop of the Winter Dew Tour in Mount Snow, Vermont. It has been such an incredible experience so far. We have a little 10′ x 10′ booth right at the bottom of the slopestyle course in the Carinthia part of the ski area. We can literally see the whole lower half of the slopestyle course from the booth, and the lower 1/3 of the half pipe. The crowds are growing thicker by the day as people stream in to see these amazing athletes work their mojo on massive kickers and courses made out of ice.

In the festival village sponsors await the crowds to show them their latest phones, cameras, jerky (yes, I’m serious) and gear. We’re in great company as there are a few vendors that fit in with what RealPlayer SP does very nicely. GoPro HD cameras are the peas to our carrots as their cameras produce super high quality video. They’re fitted to work with helmets as helmet cameras, handle bars, and chest mounts. The cameras work great for snowboarding, skiing, mountain biking, surfing- any adventure sport! We’ve been encouraging people to give the cameras a try, upload their content to the web and then transfer the videos to their phones using RealPlayer SP. One of the biggest surprises is that a lot of the attendees have heard of RealPlayer SP and many have even used it. But the majority didn’t know how easy it was to get video to their phones. It’s been fun showing them how simple it is.

We’ve got some great footage that came out of the X Games last week and are continuing to pull together coverage from the Dew Tour this weekend via a few athletes that we’re working with. Kris “Jaymo” Jamieson, pro snowboarder and amazing videographer, is working to create some awesome content that explores the world of action sports, online video, and portable video. One of his latest videos is of Steve Fisher, current leader of points in the Dew Tour. We are all pulling for Steve to take home the title. Jaymo sat with Steve for a few minutes last week to talk about the web video revolution.