RSSApple Releases New QuickTime Player
By Nate Mook | Published April 29, 2005, 9:37 AM
As Mac fans worldwide line up to be the first to receive the new release of OS X known as Tiger, Apple hasn't forgotten those not yet ready to don the stripes. The company has made available a release of QuickTime 7 for Panther users, which brings to the table a new video codec, live resizing and surround sound support.
Apple's H.264 video compression technology, which plays an integral role in Tiger, is an industry standard MPEG-4 codec that will be supported in HD-DVD and Blu-ray next-generation DVD formats. Whether creating video for mobile devices or high-definition playback, Apple claims its new codec provides "astonishing quality."
For audiophiles, Apple has added 24 channels of surround sound to QuickTime 7. New audio and video playback controls let a user set the bass and treble, along with speeding up or slowing down playback on the fly. Apple has done away with manual configuration, enabling QuickTime to auto-configure network settings.
Although QuickTime 7 is a free download, it includes some limitations. Users who wish to watch full screen video or require recording capabilities must upgrade to QuickTime Pro for $29.99 USD. Pro users also can save movies from the Web, skin the QuickTime player and create streaming content for mobile phones.
QuickTime 7 currently ships with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and can be downloaded for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. A release for Windows is coming soon, Apple says.
24 Channels of surround sound...am i missing something or is that an un-godly amount of channels?
-BigC
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|Next thing you know, they will be charging for playing your music at a higher volume. Sheesh...
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|Does this release include that stinkin' Itunes as well? I hope not.
The last time I tried downloading QT, it came with that completely (to me) useless program embedded.
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|If you look around hard enough on their site you can find an installer that contains just QuickTime and nothing else ;)
Bit like the latest version of Acrobat Reader - 27MB if you choose the default, 12.5 if you dig around and find the version without "useful" stuff like a Yahoo toolbar, heh
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|IMO it is just rude to charge for full screen video! The live resizing it kewl tho but not really any use as it just slows down the resize process.
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|haha, that's not all you get with pro. you get basic video editing and (and mainly) video export. plus you can save videos off the web with it.
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|Will Windows get a QuickTime update also?
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|A release for Windows is coming soon, Apple says.
Last line of the article........
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|D'oh. Should have read the whole article.
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|I realise you get more, but what I meant was fullscreen video is such a basic feature, it should be included in the free version. As a result I use Media Player Classic on windows as this does do fullscreen video and it works fine. I'm not interested in video editing, just watching. So why bundle this one standard feature in the pro package!
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