Crystal Reality LLC was founded in the March 2003 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia by Kim Bondarenko, Philip Philonenko and Misha Filippovitch to improve the basis for the development of Crystal Player product and to bring professional scale management for deployment of the technology to the users. The actual development of Crystal Player product was started in Oct 2002 by Kim Bondarenko.

We specialize on highly complex multimedia solutions for wide range of platforms, providing our customers both quality products as well as well tested software components for building media applications. Our acheivements include: highly popular video player for personal computers with several million downloads, perfectly optimized video and audio codecs for mobile platforms as well as DVD playback codecs.

The key differentiator of Crystal Reality from competitors are:

• one of the most experienced media software development teams in the world;
• the concentration on the video technology;
• the dedication to build the best in class products for PC and mobile platforms;
• creativity to go beyond the current technological maximum.

Currently, we work on the next generation digital media processing platform, Crystal2^TM. Our platform can be characterized as universal, portable and extensive multimedia engine for making of media intensive applications. Prototypes of players, built on the Crystal2^TM technology, already exist for Windows, PocketPC, Symbian and Linux platforms.

Crystal Reality is located in the historical district of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, which is known in the IT world as Russian Silicon valey and represents information technology and cultural capital with the great number of highly-educated professionals.