CNET Editors' review
After 10 years and with millions of users worldwide, Apple's QuickTime player still provides one of the best solutions for digital media. Whether you're watching streaming movie trailers online or diving headlong into QuickTime as a creation platform, you'll find little to quibble about in this veteran player. Its few quirks are quickly offset by the elegant Apple interface and the top-notch audio/video playback quality.QuickTime 7 comes in two varieties. The free standard player handles popular audio, graphic, and video formats, including the much-ballyhooed H.264 and MPEG-4. Also, for $29.95, you can upgrade to the content-creation-friendly Pro version, which adds features such as full-screen playback, easy editing, H.264/MPEG-4 production, and the ability to save movies from the Web. MPEG-2 support is available, but at an additional cost of $19.95.
High-definition content looks impressive with the new H.264 codec, but hardly better than with similar offerings from Microsoft. The stylish transport controls and the friendly layout work well. Inclusion of the autoupdate and automatic-network-detection features make getting started and staying current easy.
Overall, QuickTime 7 continues to be a must-have for anyone surfing the Web or looking to experience the best in digital media. Apple QuickTime - Play audio and video files in an elegant interface - Download Video Previews:
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This is the industry's first mainstream media architecture for the creation and playback of rich multimedia content for both CDMA 2000 and GSM wireless networks. This version expands its support for mobile multimedia standards to include both the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2). QuickTime 6.5 enables users to share high-quality video, audio, and text across the two predominant wireless networking technologies worldwide. Version 6.5.2 is an important release which includes a security update and bug fixes. In addition this release includes enhancements in the Apple Lossless Encoder and AAC codecs, as well as improved support for iTunes and other QuickTime-based applications.
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3.0 starsout of 660 votes
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Current version:
3.4 starsout of 60 votes
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"i dont know i havin used it"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
i dont know its new to me
Cons
i will tell you soon
Summary
i cant dislike somthing i havnt tryed
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"DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!!!"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
None that I can think of.
Cons
We're all accustomed to the annoying window asking us to upgrade to Pro. No big deal. Version 7 now combines I-Tunes with Quicktime. That's just another annoyance. Installation is terrible. My biggest problem is that this installation caused irreparable damage to my Windows 2000 machine. After installing Quicktime 7, Windows would no longer load. I couldn't even load to Safe Mode. I had to reformat my entire machine. This program is worse than a virus. Do not download it unless you like reinstalling all of your software!!!
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"i have not used it"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
i have not used it
Cons
i have not used it
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"it is good!"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
it is good unless your one of those stupid people that does not know how to shut off the hot picks movie that is enabled by default when you install quicktime as well as the system tray icon that is also enabled by default during installation all you have to do is go into the preferences and click the browser plugin tab and uncheck the box that says install system tray icon and thats easy it plays most mpeg1 files pretty well on my computer unless you are using a computer that is too old to handle quicktime very well and go into player preferences to disable the quicktime hot picks movie that automatically loads on starting up quicktime... and it does support .avi files just not Divx Avi files only regular avi files! I mean come on people get educated about how quicktime works!
Cons
does not support Divx .AVI Files like I said it only supports regular .AVI Files. Get it?
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"Piece of crap!!"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
Only way to see EA sport game previews
Cons
All!!!
Spyware.
Anoying upgrade to Pro messages.
Intrusibe in your folders, space, registry, shortcuts.
If you delete from start-up it is autoinstalled again after the next run.
Now, Quicktime dont let you download just the player, you have to install also the iTunes installing a lot of crap on your computer.
I already spent 30 minutes looking for the previous version just to install the player.
Look for an alternative for .mov files
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"Average!"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
This is a good media player if you leave out some of the cons. It plays media well.
Cons
Usually the files it plays are really bad quality and if you are viewing a quicktime file on a website it takes forever to load.
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"Good media player"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
Some things just got to be played with QuickTime 6.5.2, but there are loads of media players which can do the same thing.
It is very easy to install and use. It dose not have a lot of features but it good if you want to play back something. It installs some useful codec which are very valuable for your pc to play many things audio and video.
It provides you with good sound quality and good picture quality with is important.
Cons
starts up everytime(but you can change that)
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"Not the reason Apple leads desktop media"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
QT plug-in for web browsers to allow for 360-degree panoramic views of photos and such (houses, landscapes, cars, etc.)
Cons
This player has little or no use to anyone outside hardcore Apple users, when compared to practically any other player available for Windows. Unless you have an iTunes account, MP4 is useless (just waiting for WMP to have MP4 capability, if it doesn't already). And no I DO NOT want to upgrade to QuickTime Pro!
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"INTERESTING"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
I like it! Very good indeed, but I've found a little problem...
Cons
It can't run my movie files! Every time I try to watch a movie It says that it cannot open the file because of this or because of that! Would someone help me?
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"Just cant give it 6 stars"
Version: QuickTime 6.5.2
Pros
This is probrablay the best web player around. it's so easy to use that evan may can work with it.
Yes it sometimes seams to auto start with windows, but that's because those users simpley dont know how to tame windows and all its apps. they let the software teme them :)
Cons
to bad it isn't like the mac version.
the mac version is more like WM Player
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