Fullscreen for free

August 13th, 2007 | by Tim Wilson |

This is relatively old news, but it’s worth reporting that Apple’s recent update to QuickTime added a much-requested feature. With version 7.2 you can now play video in full-screen mode without paying for QuickTime Pro. This is a really handy update for those of us who are using videostreaming services such as United Streaming.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the VLC media player, but for garden variety QuickTime it’s more convenient to use QuickTime with United Streaming. (One of my techs had some trouble getting VLC to work with United Streaming last spring when we were test driving the service.) The free QuickTime still doesn’t have the file conversion and recording features of QT Pro, but that won’t be a big issue for most of the teachers in my district.

  1. 3 Responses to “Fullscreen for free”

  2. By Roger on Sep 18, 2007 | Reply

    Do you run Read 180 in your district? It is a remedial reading program heavily laden with video. We had trouble with 7.2 Quicktime conflicting with Read 180.

  3. By Tim Wilson on Sep 18, 2007 | Reply

    We do use Read 180, but I haven’t heard any problems with QT 7.2. That newer version of QT may not be installed on the Read 180 workstations.

  4. By Scott Johnson on Oct 12, 2007 | Reply

    We use Read 180 in our district, and I updated QT to version 7.2 and experienced issues with the Word Zone. The first syllable of each word was truncated. I uninstalled version 7.2 and reinstalled version 7.1.6 and the issue disappeared.

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