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New Poll

VisorCentral updates you with a new poll, Quicktime wins streaming poll.

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Quicktime sucks! If they didn't exist I'd only need 1 media player on my computer...

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I think Quicktime is the best media player out there, I am just too cheap to pay for the full version - it would be great to watch the movie trailers on the apple website in the "large" mode...

BTW - They can't suck if you find a reason to keep it on your computer...

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It sucks because I have to use it to view the Star Wars trailers. Otherwise I'd uninstall it ASAP...

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No offense Techie2000, but that's a really poor reason. Quicktime is used for many enhanced CDs, can play most sound formats, is capable of VR, and is more compatible than Windows Media Player or Real with older systems.
However, if you save the Star Wars trailers and convert them to MPEG you wouldn't need QuickTime anymore. I mean, if you *want* to stay behind technologically ...

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If I want to stay behind technologically I'll use RealOne. Anyways can't one stinkin company make a frickin media player that will run all the formats and do the rupping and stuff!

Registered: Aug 2000
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Only thing that really , really, really irks me about QuickTime is its nasty propensity to change all my file associations to be launched by QuickTime and not the applications I already have preset.. (i.e. JPG files and such), yes, I know you can set this at the time you install it, but you have to remember to do this ahead or else you will get burned by it, more to the point it shouldn't do it without asking, and should really only associate QuickTime specific files to itself , i.e. MOV files only..

(Windows Media player is another one that does this as well)

I really don't understand why an application, upon installing itself, can't see that if a file is already associated with some other application and it's not the OS factory "default" application it can't just leave it alone, or at least ask you if it's ok to override it.

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Registered: Mar 2001
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Originally posted by EricG
(Windows Media player is another one that does this as well)

I really don't understand why an application, upon installing itself, can't see that if a file is already associated with some other application and it's not the OS factory "default" application it can't just leave it alone, or at least ask you if it's ok to override it.

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