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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 14, 2005
- Total Downloads: 21,801,637
- Downloads last week: 49,949
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 536 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
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.
Publisher's description
From Apple :Just launch QuickTime Player, and there's no telling where you're likely to land. The Player may whisk you to the Moon or perhaps to an exotic location on this planet. Take you on a virtual field trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Or treat you to the latest news, movie trailers, music videos, HBO series or PBS specials.
That's because QuickTime 7 Player takes advantage of the latest video compression technology. It's called H.264, and it's an important new industry standard that's quickly garnered widespread support. Chosen as the industry-standard codec for 3GPP (mobile multimedia), MPEG-4 HD-DVD and Blu-ray, H.264 represents the next generation of video for everything from mobile multimedia to high-definition playback. H.264 icon.
The new QuickTime 7 Player not only delivers startling quality, but it's easier to use than ever. It requires no set up for content that streams over the network. Instead, QuickTime 7 Player automatically determines your system's connection speed and chooses the highest quality stream for the amount of bandwidth you have available. And if you ever lose a connection while watching streaming video, QuickTime 7 Player automatically reconnects. Now, that's convenience.
Do you think great video deserves great audio? We do, too. And QuickTime 7 Player delivers truly outstanding multi-channel audio. In fact, it provides you with up to 24 channels of audio, turning your home office into a home theater. Pop in a movie or video game that features surround sound and prepare to be amazed at the heightened audio experience you'll enjoy on your computer equipped with surround-sound speakers. A really good sport, QuickTime 7 Player supports a wide-range of industry-standard audio formats, including AIFF, WAV, MOV, MP4 (AAC only) and AAC/ADTS.
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User reviews of QuickTime 7.0
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 536 votes
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27 out of 29 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.0
"SUCKS! Don't upgrage from version 6.5.2"
Pros: I wish I could say something nice about it. But there isn't nothing good to say.
Cons: 1. Try to download 4 times, all the downloads kept getting corupted, finally downloaded it and it took 23 minutes.
2. While installing it will force you to install iTunes, which I have no use for.
3. The installation is a nightmare, it takes forever and if you have 6.5.2 Pro version it will take it away and gives you the basic version.
4. Better have an extra copy of the installation of your previous version because they have removed them all from their website except for this sucky 7.0 version. You can't even download a version for Windows 98.
5. iTunes is very difficult to uninstall especially if you don't have enough room on your computer for it and you just need Quicktime.
6. The Quicktime 7.0 player locks up my computer and I have to kill it with the taskmanager. Version 6.5.2 worked perfectly. So in other words, it doesn't work and sucks!
7. After all of this, now you have to uninstall it and it is as bad as the installation was. Takes about 4 reboots to completely get rid of it.
8. If your Quicktime player works alright, then just don't upgrade to the worthless 7.0 version. If you don't have Quicktime and you need it to play your files, then search for "Quicktime Alternative" on Google or Yahoo. Or you can get an old version at www dot oldversion dot com.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Pros: None
Cons: everything sucks the installation is crappy and when you uninstall it takes like 4 or 5 reboots this software is the worst ever Windows Media Player and Winamp are way better
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.0
"Crystal clear videos... but..."
Pros: Videos on Quicktime player are very clear.
Cons: Everytime you play a Quicktime video, the player resets it's settings, and if not changed after viewing, will load up the client at startup. I find this very annoying, however I do not know of a better solution at the moment for viewing quicktime videos. These complaints I have are my reasoning for only giving 3 stars.
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Pros: NONE
Cons: Everything, but i did find a link on the official Quicktime website to download the old version it can be located here>>>
go to apples website then add this at the end of the URL
/support/downloads/quicktime652forwindows.html
It was hard to find(It was in the corner somewhere LOL)
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Pros: There is nothing appealing about Apple QuickTime 7 either through functionality, user interaction, the GUI or the support it provides for various media file types.
Cons: QuickTime 7.0 for Windows users is truly awful in many respects. Firstly, QuickTime automatically hijacks your Windows Media Player file associations for many file types, which is frustration when trying to watch certain movie clips on the internet. Secondly, QuickTime 7 is very heavy on processor usage, especially at boot since it automatically, without your permission, and without your consent, assigns itself a start-up item, and for those with low end systems, this is going to be a nightmare. Finally, upon UnInstallation, i found,through using a fully licensed version of PC Tools Registry Mechanic, over 1000 invalid entries associated with QuickTime 7.0 alone.
This is not worth the download bandwidth and users would be better off downloading DivX for codec support, and NVIDIA PureVideo (NVIDIA GPU's only) for HD movies.
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