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QuickTime 5.0

Quick specs
Price: Free
Operating system: Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98
Date added: April 24, 2001
Total Downloads: 21,801,637
Downloads last week: 49,949
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CNET editors' rating: 5.0 stars
Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 536 votes
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CNET editors' review

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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.

Publisher's description

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QuickTime is Apple's video technology that allows you to play high-quality video directly on your computer. QuickTime is a set of extensions that, when used with movie software, lets you view video clips or even full-length video productions.

New features in QuickTime 5.0 include QuickTime VR for increased 360-degree virtual reality scenes; Flash 4 support for greater interactivity; a custom skinable interface; MPEG-1 capabilities, and an enhanced DV codec for faster rendering of digital video.

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