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:
2.6 starsout of 48 votes
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"Please under requirements add "32 bit OS only""
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
nothing
Cons
nothing
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"Now i can watch video that i send though a cell phone to my computer"
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
Good software!
Cons
None.
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"Too many bugs."
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
It is needed to watch some videos.
Cons
QuickTime has frozen on me several times in the past. It also seems slow to load up. And, many features found in Quicktime cannot be accessed unless you get QuickTime Pro. Maybe this is good on a Mac, I dunno. But on Windows, it's very buggy.
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"It's I Tunes hiding in QT"
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
Hard to say if I can't play *.avi
Cons
I installed it, QT downloaded as itunessetup. It won't play the avi file that previous dedicated QT played. Lucky i still have the dedicated QT running, in a different Program folder of WinXP. What a confusion.
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"Worst media player ever !!!"
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
Nothing nice to say. QuickTime is garbage - pure and simple!
Cons
Behaves like a bully and it's hard to uninstall. Also, it will put an icon into Quick Launch bar without your permission. If you are lucky, it will work sometimes. However, in 80% cases it will not work at all. Not only that, this software can ruin all your media files. In short, run away, my friend, and don't let Apple freaks ruin your life!
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"Neccessary for certain things, but other players are better"
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
Very "Apple-Clean" feel
Clean interface
Ultra-high quality video-best out there
Cons
You need to purchase the full-version. If that was free, I'f feel free to give this 5 stars. Full screen can't be enabled, and limited formats, along with being bundled with iTunes on the Apple site keep me from recommending this as a universal media player.
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"Messed up browsers"
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Cons
Ever since QT is installed, I could never see the flash animations on websites again, all the flash docs are replaced by this big useless QT logo with a stupid question mark in it. I tried every way I could think of to disable QT plugin or extension or whatever you call it on Firefox - remove QT plugins, reset QT MIME TYPE...etc., but it just won't work. If you don't want to mess up your browser like I did, DO NOT install QT!
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"Nice update."
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
The newer versions have added a nicer, more user-friendly UI. It's free though they have an optional upgrade. Needed for a lot of online Videos and other media.
Cons
You can download quicktime alternative, which will allow WMP to act in place of this, still a nice media player to add to the collection.
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"Nothing but problems for years on various computers"
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
none
Cons
Only use it when I absolutely have to. It hardly ever works, then I uninstall (and that doesn't work cleanly either). This time it CRASHED on install!! Email the webmaster of any website using it saying you won't download the plug in and it's driving substantial numbers of people away because it's just way too painful (if you agree with me).
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"Crap"
Version: QuickTime 7.0.2
Pros
None really other than being able to view a Quicktime movie, should someone use this crappy format. Unfortunately, some websites use Quicktime movies.
Cons
Like iTunes (which sometimes disables my sound for some reason), its slow and messes up every so often...Apple could create a PC virus disguised as another program and download.com would give it five stars. Steve Jobs must have paid y'all a lot of money to highly rate his company's crap.
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