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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: December 17, 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 7.3.1 resolves security issues.
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Version 7.3.1 resolves security issues.
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User reviews of QuickTime 7.3.1
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 540 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.3.1
"Very intrusive and annoying player!"
Pros: Nice interface.
Cons: QuickTime is one of those default players put into Mac systems, however it's very intrusive on Windows too! Although this player has a nice interface, there are other better media players that look good as well and uses less resources than QuickTime. QuickTime is also necessary to install when using iTunes. It's almost like a forced product just for Apple to gain more hits on QuickTime (one of those players that are not even useful. I'd hate to say it but even Windows Media Player does a better job!)
When I also had this installed with iTunes, I decided to uninstall it (iTunes does NOT function without QuickTime), other than that, QuickTime was and IS not very useful. I asked it to close the system tray icon, and it still came back up permanently on every startup. Disabled its services, and yet it still runs. It's like I am being stalked. And worst of all, I uninstalled it, and it was still stuck on my Add/Remove Programs with no file size or any info. I had to use go through a whole journey just to find a way to remove it!
I'd stay away from this!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.3.1
"Program itself is good, but has intrusive qualities."
Pros: Stable, and plays Quicktime movies.
Cons: It tries to sneak in iTunes. I don't use iTunes, and I don't want iTunes. When I wanted to update Quicktime, it bundles iTunes with it. If you unchecked to not download iTunes at Apple's Quicktime download webpage, you're going to get it anyways. iTunes installs a process that runs in the background, which is a program I don't use. I don't want to drain memory for something I don't use thanks. That's why I uninstalled it. Get Quicktime Alternative if you just want to play the videos, and don't want a full Quicktime player with luggage.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.3.1
Pros: easy to use!
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.3.1
"It seems to be an improvement over the previous version."
Pros: I am happy with the latest version 7 of Quicktime. I have had absolutely no problems with it, except that it wants to "take over" as my default media player all the time. I just click no each time and it still works fine.
Cons: No negatives other than the one previously mentioned, which I consider very minor.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: QuickTime 7.3.1
Pros: It plays the Quicktime format. Whoop-dee-ding-dong-doo.
Cons: The most instrusive software I've ever seen. It highjacks your file associations, every time it runs. It inserts itself into your start menu, every time it runs. It plugs itself into your browser, and hides so it can't be unplugged. Mr. Jobs can take his program (and iTunes too), shove it where the sun don't shine, and give it a good hard twist counterclockwise.
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