Apple QuickTime 7 for Windows Preview Release
June 07, 2005
Cupetino, CA - Apple(R) delivered a preview release of QuickTime(R) 7 Player and QuickTime 7 Pro for Windows, the industry's first mainstream H.264 solution for streaming and playback of High Definition (HD) video on the Windows platform, according to Apple.
QuickTime 7 for Windows is offered as a free download. Quicktime 7 Pro is priced at $29.99 for a single user license.
Ratified aspart of the MPEG-4 standard, the company said the H.264 video codec delivers pristine quality video across a broad range of bandwidths, from 3G for mobile devices to iChat AV for video conferencing to HD for broadcast and DVD. H.264 has been adopted by both the DVD Forum and Blu-ray Disc Association for the next generation of high definition DVDs.
"With nearly a billion copies downloaded, QuickTime has an impressive
legacy of developing and supporting the latest digital media open standards
and is already an incredibly popular Windows technology," said Philip
Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "By
utilizing the superb H.264 codec to deliver gorgeous video content, QuickTime
7 will change the way users experience video on their computers, mobile phones
and televisions."
QuickTime 7 Player for Windows features:
* support for H.264, the state-of-the-art, worldwide video standard;
* support for playing up to 24 channels of audio, including 5.1 and 7.1
audio;
* new and improved playback controls, including jog shuttle and variable
speed playback options;
* zero-configuration streaming for easy access to the optimal streaming
experience; and
* live resizing for smooth playback as a user changes the size of the
QuickTime 7 Player window.
QuickTime 7 Pro for Windows features:
* H.264 video encoding for easy creation of pristine video for any use,
from 3G to HD and everything in between;
* support for configuring and encoding 5.1 audio;
* new full-screen controls for easy access to player controls in full-
screen mode;
* native support for VBScript, enabling QuickTime workflow automation;
* background exporting to allow users to continue working during exports;
and
* all-new movie settings for simple and efficient movie authoring.
With nearly a billion downloads, Apple says that QuickTime is their industry-leading, standards-based software for developing, producing and delivering high-quality audio and video over IP, wireless and broadband\ networks. The company reports that QuickTime was chosen by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as the basis for the MPEG-4 file format and is at the core of the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards. Because of QuickTime's strong support for standards, the company says that mobile operators using
Apple's hardware- and software-based mobile streaming solution can deliver
streaming media to the broadest range of mobile handsets without incurring the
cost and complexity that results when multiple proprietary technologies are
deployed.
Pricing & Availability
The preview release of QuickTime 7 Player for Windows is available immediately as a free download from http://www.apple.com/quicktime. The preview release of QuickTime 7 Pro for Windows is available from the Apple Store(R) for $29.99 (US) for a single user license. The final versions of QuickTime 7 Player and QuickTime 7 Pro for Windows will be available this summer.
For more information visit:
www.apple.com
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