On 3/6/09, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >For anyone who doesn't know, Quicktime is kind of like Adobe Acrobat >in that you can get the player for free but you have to buy the >software for making Quicktime files (QuickTime Pro). A few years ago I >bought and paid for QuickTime Pro. A couple of years after that, when >my web browser would no longer play many QuickTime files because of >version compatibility issues, I decided to upgrade the QuickTime >player for my browser. During installation it informed me that the new >QuickTime player was incompatible with my version of QuickTime Pro and >to install it I would have to delete QuickTime Pro -- which I had >bought and paid for -- from my computer! (The unstated subtext was of >course that I would have to purchase the latest version of QuickTime >Pro.) > >In the end I decided that I was quite happy to delete QuickTime Pro >and vowed never to have it on my computer again.
Interesting. I think it depends on what level you are using video. For domestic use and probably some prosumer use on Windows machines, there would possibly be no need for Quicktime. Anyone with a Mac has the functionality built in. Anyone using video professionally would want QT, and would probably be using a Mac anyway, but not necessarily. I never use the QT player to do anything more than view video as a simple player. For editing tasks I use Final Cut. But that's high-end and so if you were using a simple app to edit video and (say) producer DVDs of work, there would be no need for QT. Of course Apple wants your money - who doesn't! Respect the decision, and no probem, name your poison :-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
