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.
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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All versions:
3.0 starsout of 655 votes
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Current version:
2.0 starsout of 33 votes
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"Crystal clear videos... but..."
Version: QuickTime 7.0
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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"Very difficult program! Don"t download."
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Cons
A very difficult program!
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"Great Product, but don't go pro."
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Pros
I have a mac and am a diehard mac user, and when i make movies or pictures in formats like mpeg-4, tiff, etc, i like to be able to use them on my windows pc. Also, lots of my favorite websites have .mov movies and the .mov format is very clear and precise.
Cons
No full screen for the non-pro (poorsie/cheapster) version, but you can drag the size to near full screen anyway. I wouldn't go pro with this product, as most video for qt will not be in a format that is good for full screen view.
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"Simply awful"
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Cons
This should get no stars, but that is not an option.
For some reason Apple has decided to copy MS in producing bloatware that highjacks the computer and still worse, doesn't work. This version of quicktime is garbage. I have installed it on two different machines, and on each, the program crashes shortly after it launches.
Not to mention the fact that you have to buy yet another $30 liscence to upgrade to pro and you get nothing other than an email with a product key. What a scam!
I have since reverted to using QT6 which works just fine. Do not DOWNLOAD
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"Bad Software"
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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"One of a MUST software on your computer!!!!!!!!!!!"
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Pros
1.Support much of software like 3gpp,qt mov and so on;best linked with a software like ACDSee.
2.Without PRO feature,it still a freeware.
Cons
1. Nothing much improvement from the previous version which it adds a new feature,there is i-tunes.I don't think that the i-tunes can give us much and beside,it use the system memory.
2. Slow loading and use a lot of RAM memory and thus,this should improve.
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"Awful"
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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"High risk download"
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Pros
Nothing - failed to install properly
Cons
I've just spent many hours trying to figure why my Picasa suddenly stopped working and it turns out that this wretched program is responsible. It failed to instal properly on my machine - maybe an old copy of windows was responsible. However the knock on efffect was that some other programs notably Picasa just wouldnt work. If it doesnt install properly its tricky to remove and onbly when its removed can ou reinstall the earleir vrsion, which is not advertised on the Appple site. but is available:
if you add the following to the Apple site url
/support/downloads/quicktime652forwindows.html
Of course most people instal QT as part of the Itunes upgrade package. In my view Apple will quicly erode the goodwill it currently enjoys if it continues this dodgy practices.
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"Great program, good for you stream watchers."
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Pros
Great for watching streams, especially if you have the pro version which makes it more reliable (as of what i've noticed on my dsl connection). The plus about the pro version is being able to save clips you watch. This is an overall good program, i give it a 4 star due to the limitations for non paying computer people.
Cons
Limitations are weak, but you are still able to watch videos. In order to be able to do some really cool stuff with this program, you must get the pro version. So if you are a quicktime enthusiast, go out and buy the pro.
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"Must download and install itunes? ridiculous."
Version: QuickTime 7.0
Pros
Nothing
Cons
1. I am running a 2ghz system and this software runs very glitchy.
2. The "new" version of itunes that comes in the bundle locks up my music about...oh....every 20 to 30 seconds.
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