Special Announcement to Yahoo! Group QuickTime members!
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(My apologies if you receive this twice. I am having problems with Yahoo!
Groups posting messages).

This is the one of the only special announcements I have published in the 11
years of the QuickTime Group on Yahoo!

I thought it pertinent because Apple has finally published some official
information on QuickTime X, the first major change to QuickTime in many years.

Hopefully, this will mark a milestone for QuickTime, and allow renewed interest
in the platform going forward.

Thank you to you all for being such persevered and patient members of this
group!

Sincerely,
Ron Manke
Yahoo! Group QuickTime Moderator

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Apple has posted some official QuickTime X information.

QuickTime X will be available in September, and will be included in the MacOSX
Snow Leopard operating system for Macs, which will be selling for $29.

The biggest change is that Apple has removed the licensing restriction from the
QuickTime Player so that you will no longer need to get the Pro version of
QuickTime in order to use the editing features in the QuickTime player.

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For more information on the new functionality in QuickTime X, see the following
information on Apple's site:

Overview:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#quicktime 


Technical details:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/#quicktimex


Here's the WWDC keynote address in glorious QuickTime (you will have to skip
through it to get to the QuickTime specific content):
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0906paowdnv/event/index.html?internal=ijal\
rmacu 


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I have yet to find any information on QuickTime X for Windows, but considering
that there does not seem to be any changes to CODEC's, this may be a non-issue.

The biggest features that would be missing from the Windows player would be HTTP
streaming and GPU-accelerated video decoding. 

Hopefully Apple comes out with a version for Windows, but they have not
announced anything thus far.