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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.
Apple QuickTime - Play audio and video files in an elegant interface - Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
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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 7.5.5 includes unspecified updates.
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Version 7.5.5 includes unspecified updates.
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3.1 starsout of 19 votes
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"seems to work very well"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
well, I like it very much, open pictures etc. very well.
Cons
nothing is wrong with it
Summary
Yes, I think all Vista users should download it.
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"REQUIRED TO HAVE ITUNES .... BOOO"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
HAVE TO HAVE IT FOR ITUNES .... BOOOOO
Cons
MORE COMPLICATED THAN WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. ONLY NEED IT FOR ITUNES ....
Summary
IF I DID NOT NEED IT TO USE ITUNES ... I WOULD NOT HAVE IT
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"Apple fails at making software for Windows"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
The Quick Time player for OSX works great.... but not for Windows.
Cons
On Windows Quick Time is horrible. It's slow, has a tasteless interface, and has less features then Windows Media Player. I see no appeal in this version of Quick Time at all.
Summary
Only download this software if you have to (i.e. need to play a .mov). Most if not all of Apples software on Windows is horrendous. The company seems to only know how to program for their own OS...
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"video screen to small"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
nothing special
Cons
video screen to small
Summary
video screen to small
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"seems to work well"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
its easy to use
Cons
I havent found anything that I dont like yet
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"I thought that RealPlayer was bad, this takes the cake"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
It works real well with itunes, other than that dont use. limitted options
Cons
extremely limitted to what you can do
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"Useful software"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
Very good for viewing Britanica Visual Dictrionary
Cons
Earlier version didn,t install well with Windows XP, supplied with Visual Dictionary.
Summary
I like the product very well. When ever free update is available please inform my by e-mail. So that I will use the latest version
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"perfect ..."
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
needed it for
Cons
my itunes and it works perfectly
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"was a necessary for my zencast downloads... works great"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
it works great
Cons
its not the product it just having to use so many different applications.... i guess everyone has to have a jopb :D
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"great stuff ok"
Version: QuickTime 7.5.5
Pros
everything
Cons
everything
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