>From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>I refuse to install the Quicktime player on my machine.
>The free version nags you to purchase the upgrade EVERY time you play a
>video.
Yea, that's unfortunate. The trick is to set your computer clock forward a year
or so, install, set your clock back, then no nagware -- at least that works on
a Mac.
>It also is horrible about trying to take over the different file
>formats on your machine...
I think this is tit-for-tat. Microsoft is well known for doing the same thing!
If you re-install Windows Medai Player, it will grab all ".mov" files, too!
You really should blame the Windows design that depends on a central registry,
rather than QuickTime. No program ever "takes over" files on a Mac, because
file-program associations are on a per-file basis. Sometimes, Microsoft is not
so good at copying Apple... :-)
>puts programs into your
>system tray.
Well, it is supposed to be system-level software. But you're right -- it should
at least let you know what it is doing.
Anyway, for all its flaws, QuickTime is really the best cross-platform media
authoring system you can get for under $30. I'm not going to spend $300 or more
to do it in some other format! But thanks for your comments -- I'll pass them
on to Apple.
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