Media/Music Player Rundown - QuickTime (Stand Alone)

Boy, how the world of computing has changed. I remember the good ol' days when you had to use QuickTime. There was no way around it -- you couldn't watch .mov files without it. The added bonus of that being QuickTime movies usually had better quality and the browser plug-in was also a must-have. My only beef with it was whenever you started the QuickTime client up, you would get a pop-up annoying you into buying the "Pro" version.

Now it's 2007 and what was once a shining star on the media player forefront is now the afterthought of a small fart. QuickTime is now so non-essential and unnecessary that it's beyond fathomability. Yeah, I think I made up that word.

C'mon! If you have iTunes, you have QuickTime. If you don't have QuickTime, well... who cares? It doesn't do anything but play .mov files; lots of other players nowadays have way more features than the bland Apple media player. VideoLAN's VLC Media Player, for example, can play QuickTime media formatted files and so much more without a "buy this better crap" pop-up ad. The only saving grace for Apple's QuickTime software was it's browser plug-in, especially for Firefox. These days, though, it's no longer a necessity.

There's absolutely nothing wrong or bad about QuickTime. It's just that it's hard to justify it as a default player anymore. After all these years, that pop-up is still annoying.

To download QuickTime (stand alone without iTunes or with iTunes), click here.