Posted by Not Dave on 10/18/05 06:50

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:28:41 +1300, Nathan Mercer <nmercer@gmail.com>
growled these words from under a rock:

>Helpful Harry wrote:
>>>>>I have just been reading that you have to buy Quicktime or pay $1.99 for
>>>>>each
>>>>>movie or Video..
>>>>
>>>>TV episodes (and music videos?) are being sold on Apple's iTunes web
>>>>store at $2 to $3 each. These can then be played on the computer or
>>>>transferred to the iPod Video.
>>>>
>>>>You don't "have to buy QuickTime" at all. You can download QuickTime
>>>>for free (if you own a Mac it's already installed, but you may need to
>>>>download the new QuickTime 7) and the only reason you'd pay for a
>>>>QuickTime Pro regisitration code is if you want to play moves
>>>>full-screen size rather than in a window ... or if you're tired of the
>>>>nagging pop-up window.
>>>
>>>What?!? Quicktime wont even show video in full screen?!?
>>>
>>>That's pretty crap. Typical Mac, I guess.
>>
>>
>> It has absolutely nothing to do with "Mac".
>>
>> It's one of the limitations that Apple have decided to put into the
>> free version of QuickTime. If you pay to upgrade it to the Pro version
>> you get full-screen playback (among a few other things). This is no
>> different to many other companies that have a limited "free" version
>> and a pay-for "pro" version.
>>
>> There is of course other player software that will play the movies
>> full-screen.
>
>URL handy for the software pls?

This one's quite good:

http://tinyurl.com/4mgs

Not sure if it runs on the Mac, though.

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