Thursday, July 12, 2007

QuickTime Fills The Screen

Hurray for Apple! QuickTime Player has now caught up with every other bloody media player out there!

Early this morning I read an article on TUAW that said that Apple had released updates for QuickTime and iTunes, so off I went to install.

The iTunes update was grand.... run of the mill stuff, but the QT update unlocked a function that was previously only available through QuickTime Pro - Full Screen Playback.

It is kind of silly that Apple are still charging people for QuickTime Pro when almost everything that it does (fullscreen playback, audio transcoding, video transcoding......) can be done through the iLife suite.

I'd say the main reason they unlocked the full screen option now is because of the QuickLook feature in Leopard which will allow you to preview documents, images and video in full screen mode without having to launch any programmes other than the Finder!

Sorry Redmond, the wow starts in October :)

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