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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 12/31/07 04:16
On Dec 30, 9:49 pm, David Segall <da...@address.invalid> wrote:
> patrick j <usemywebs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi
>
> >I'm trying to get a QuickTime movie to work
>
> [OT] Please don't, or at least give us a choice of formats. Apple
> insist on loading up my machine with extra junk to sell iTunes and
> iPhones so I'm trying to get rid of QuickTime.
It is a jungle out there now concerning video formats. Many offer you
free players in the hope that you will buy some of their music etc.
Apple tries to sell you media and players. Real tries to sell you
media. Microsoft makes recent players including the newest WMP 11 that
can only be installed on a WindowsXP or Vista OSs. Also they try to
sell you media. And so on. The glut of video formats pushed by various
companies now approaches anarchy. See my video zoo at
http://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/VideoZoo.php for examples of 15 of
these format beasts that you often run into these days - and these 15
by no means exhaust the list. And several of these formats have HD
versions etc. Of course the wide use of small hand-held portable
devices, mobile devices, and cell phones has expanded the wide use of
media far beyond desktop computers.
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