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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: July 25, 2007
- Total Downloads: 21,801,637
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 540 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.
Version 7.2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of QuickTime 7.2
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 540 votes
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Version: QuickTime 7.2
"Another "semi-necesarry" program that's annoying!"
Pros: Needed to play some movie previews on apple.com
Cons: I hate, HATE this player! Because it's annoying how it's necessary for itunes to work, and also because it will not go away after you install it. There was no possible way I thought of to stop it from running at startup, or to remove the system tray icon. This program happens to be very useless, and very irritating.
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Version: QuickTime 7.2
Pros: Just OK
Cons: could be better
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.2
"Just another intrusive, proprietary viewer"
Pros: Plays the proprietary format (.mov) well enough; you don't need it for anything else.
Cons: I hate, hate, HATE software that installs itself into your startup list, and won't allow you to remove it. Every time I'm forced to use Quicktime, I have to run CCleaner to delete it from startup. Arrogant jerks. It's my computer, and I'm going to run it the way I want to run it. If Apple has a problem with that, they can shove it where the sun don't shine, and give it a hard twist counter-clockwise.
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Version: QuickTime 7.2
"Slow & sometimes buggy... You still need it though"
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.2
"Good then Earlier But needs Work"
Pros: Tell you the truth, I have only used QuickTime when struck with mov OR 3gp files.
It has a nice skin and also plays nicely. i do like the browser plugin, but it also needs a complete makeover.
Cons: Other than these I dont find it useful for anything else. Reasons are:-
1) loading takes long time (min 8-10sec)
2) sluggish controls, you can get lost if your first time
3) sits hard on your valuable resoures
4) annoying startup
5) its proprietary .mov format can be easily manipulated to risk security (search BlackHat Article)
6) Web player is very basic in comparison to nowadays flash players.
7) Conversion to another format takes an era & still dont give even normal results.
[I used it on two machines (one at home, other at office)
1) WinXp pro SP2 - 512MB RAM - 3.06Ghs Intel HT 800FSB - 2MB L2 cach - 80GB SATA
2) WinVISTA ULTIMATE 1GB RAM - 3.06 Intel DualCore - 160GB SATA]
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