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- From: mha@baka.ithaca.ny.us (Mark Anbinder)
- Subject: QuickTime 1.5 Released
- Date: 19 Oct 1992 19:27:59 -0500
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- Subject: QuickTime 1.5 Released
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- MOVED OVER PR NEWWIRE AT 8:51 AM EDT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1992.
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- Apple's New Version of QuickTime Enhances Multimedia Architecture and
- Capabilities
- QuickTime 1.5 Features Larger Movies and Support for Photo CD
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- Dateline
- Cupertino, California--October 19, 1992
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- Description
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- Extending its commitment to bring multimedia capabilities to
- mainstream computer users, Apple Computer, Inc. has updated its
- QuickTime multimedia architecture for the Apple Macintosh personal
- computer. QuickTime 1.5, which is offered as an extension to System 7,
- provides users with improved performance over QuickTime 1.0, enhancing
- their ability to integrate dynamic data types such as video, sound, and
- animation into presentations, training materials, and documents.
- QuickTime 1.5 offers higher compression ratios, which results in larger
- movie frame sizes and better frame rates. In addition, QuickTime 1.5
- provides support for Kodak's new Photo CD technology, and full
- screen/full motion video with available add-on hardware.
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- Significance
-
- QuickTime enables users to cut, copy and paste video, sound and
- animation with the same ease-of-use the Macintosh has always offered
- for graphics, data and text. QuickTime 1.5 enhances users' experience
- with these dynamic data types by offering better performance and added
- functionality. QuickTime 1.5 continues to be compatible with all
- color-capable Macintosh computers using a 68020 or higher processor;
- there are currently more than 4 million such systems in the installed
- base.
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- QuickTime is one of Apple's most widely adopted technologies and
- appeals to a broad range of users in numerous industries. It is used
- for many purposes, including training, entertainment, communication, and
- presentations. Hundreds of applications are already available with
- support for QuickTime. In the future, users and developers will be able
- to incorporate and play QuickTime movies in the Windows environment,
- further enhancing the adoption of the QuickTime multimedia architecture.
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- QuickTime technology is distinguished by its highly sophisticated
- modular architecture, time-based synchronization model, human interface
- and Apple's commitment to implementation across a variety of computer
- platforms.
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- In addition to enhanced performance capability, QuickTime 1.5 offers
- the following features:
- -- Larger screen, software-only movie playback--up to 320 x 240 pixels at
- 15 frames per second on a Macintosh LC II-class computer, which is four
- times the current screen-area for playback. If the screen size remains
- at the original 160 x 120 pixels, the frame rate increases up to 30
- frames per second.
- -- Integrated support for Kodak Photo CD. Photo CD technology enables
- users to have their photos digitized onto a CD-ROM that can be accessed
- by QuickTime with Version 4.0 of Apple's CD-ROM software. Features
- include easily viewed "thumbnails," QuickTime overview movie of photo
- images, and file-format translation so that Photo CD images can be
- pasted into any Macintosh-based application that supports PICT files.
- -- Complete support for full-screen, full-motion digital video cards
- provided by third-party developers. Hardware-assisted playback
- performance is also doubled. QuickTime 1.5 supports third-party solutions
- offered by SuperMac, NuVideo, and RasterOps at video sizes up to
- 640 x 480 pixels at 30 frames per second.
- -- Improved CD-ROM data handling for enhanced QuickTime movie playback
- from a CD.
- -- Improved network performance for better CD playback on a computer
- network.
- -- Faster 1-bit dithering, which offers enhanced and smoother viewing of
- QuickTime movies on a Macintosh PowerBook or other monochrome Macintosh
- computer.
- -- Generic media handlers, which allow developers to incorporate different
- data types (beyond sound and video) into QuickTime movies to create new
- movie track types. Apple used this capability to create a text track.
- -- Improved human interface, which enhances the consistency of QuickTime
- across applications.
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- Availability
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- QuickTime 1.5 is available immediately and will be distributed via a
- wide variety of bulletin boards and user groups. In addition,
- QuickTime 1.5 will be bundled with the System 7.1 Update Kit, the
- System 7 Personal Upgrade Kit and the System 7 MultiPack. It will also be
- available as part of many Macintosh third-party applications. Finally,
- QuickTime 1.5 will be included on the Developer CD available next month
- from APDA, Apple's source for developer tools.
-
- For additional information, APDA may be reached at the following
- numbers:
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- 1-800-282-2732 United States
- 1-800-637-0029 Canada
- 408/562-3910 Other Countries
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- Pricing
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- Apple recommends that the QuickTime 1.5 extension be available free
- of charge. Bulletin boards, user groups and resellers may charge a
- nominal fee for materials, labor and connect time.
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- Apple offers developer licensing programs, and pricing for these may
- vary.
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- System Requirements
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- QuickTime works with all Macintosh computers that have at least a
- 68020 processor, 2MB of memory, and System 6.0.7 or any version of
- System 7.
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- Contact
- Tricia Chan
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- (408) 974-3886
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- Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks and
- QuickTime and System 7 are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
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