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:
3.1 starsout of 35 votes
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"Deseo descargar el Quick Time 7.1.3"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
Para reproducir M�sica.
Cons
nada en com�n.
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"Cant Install onto VISta = worthless"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
cant install = No PROS
Cons
cant play all the quicktime stuff and my real player is jammed too because Quicktime cannot keep up with MS Vista!! Am very disapointed in Apple
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"Not enought option when you intall the program"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
When I ran the program on my computer, it work quite well and played in a decent size window...
Cons
When the program installed itself on my computer, I didn't like the idea that it changed my browser setting and became the default when I chose to view a video (like mpeg, wmp, etc..), so I uninstalled it from my computer... I need to be asked before changing my default settings...
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"Tremendous!"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
With its sleek interface, its usually hard to beat along with the fact its quite simplistic too.
Cons
None I know of
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"should be deemed adware"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
There is nothing redeeming about something you are forced to download.
Cons
The ONLY reason this is downloaded so much is no other player will play .mov files. It isnt even a media player, its Itunes. That means you get 2 programs that you dont want with one download for something that could have easily been just a codec! why doesnt apple just give up and release the codec for other BETTER players to use?
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"Itunes kill a wonderful program"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Cons
I loved quicktime but with itunes included into it became a real memory hog.
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"Microsoft Should have it!!"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
On of the most popular and famous media players, Its better than WMP or ROP. It also has a very important plug-in that many programs such as Axialis IconWorkshop needs its plug-in. I am using QuickTime since the 4 version.
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"Not the best but still good"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
It supports many useful features. I can play, burn, record, rip cd or find the information of the CD on CDDB.Tks
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"Worse than Windows Media Player 11."
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
absolutely nothing.
Cons
performance; speed; file compatibility; footprint
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"Great"
Version: QuickTime 7.1.3
Pros
Nice interface. This program can playback media formats that other media program can't. Recommend it!
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