QuickTime NewsApril 6, 2007
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BBC Motion Gallery announces adoption of QuickTime 7
Tracks to Watch
QuickTime Showcase
Movies
iTunes corner

Hot News Headlines
Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store: In May, EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide.

Mac Pro Introduces 8-core Processing: Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro.

Register for the Final Cut Pro Supermeet at NAB: Join the Final Cut Pro User Group Network at its sixth annual NAB FCPUG Network SuperMeet on April 18. Featured guests include legendary award-winning editor Walter Murch, who is currently editing Francis Coppola’s new film, Youth Without Youth.

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Macy Gray

Macy Gray — “Finally Made Me Happy”
Video | iTunes Store


Ciara

Ciara — “Like a Boy”
Video | iTunes Store


Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath — The Dio Years
Listening Party | iTunes Store


Hilary Duff

Hilary Duff — “With Love”
Video | iTunes Store


Klaxons

Klaxons — “Golden Skans”
Video | iTunes Store


Ted Leo

Ted Leo — Studio Session
Video | iTunes Store


Joe

Joe — “If I Was Your Man”
Video | iTunes Store


The Doors

The Doors — Reissues from the Perception
Listening Party | iTunes Store


The Bees

The Bees — “Octopus”
Video | iTunes Store


Stefy

Stefy — “Chelsea”
Video | iTunes Store

BBC Motion Gallery announces adoption of QuickTime 7
BBC Motion Gallery
Last week, the BBC Motion Gallery announced that its customers will now have access to high-quality, high-resolution online preview clips with the adoption of QuickTime 7.

Offering users seamless digital production workflow, BBC Motion Gallery preview clips take advantage of the superior quality H.264 video codec in QuickTime 7. The BBC Motion Gallery website now delivers stunning crisp, clear video with smaller file sizes that load quickly. The clip previews in QuickTime 7 will also contain a rich body of metadata, searchable via the Spotlight feature in Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.

Discover the BBC Motion Gallery. With more than 500,000 hours of footage, it encompasses a wealth of content covering natural history, sport, news, locations, art, music, celebrities, historic events, and more. And download the BBC Motion Gallery Search Widget for Mac OS X users.

QuickTime showcase
American Dad The hilarity continues in the second season of American Dad when Stan becomes a street racer to impress Francine and put the spice back into their marriage. The Smiths breathe a sigh of relief when Steve heads off to camp — until they realize it’s a refugee camp. Meanwhile, Haley and Jeff break up, and it takes a trip through the Dungeons and Dragons world of Steve and his friends to get them back together — and then break them up again.

At the iTunes Store, you can download your favorite episodes or buy a Season Pass to American Dad, Season 2.

Star Trek Who’s your favorite captain on Star Trek? If it’s Captain Kirk, the original, you better beam yourself over to the iTunes Store for something wonderful: Star Trek: The Original Series (Remastered), Season 1.

These remastered adventures look and sound even better than ever, with dozens of new and higher-detailed visual effects that blend seamlessly into the episodes you fondly remember. Join Kirk, Spock and McCoy for the first chapter of the 1960s science fiction series that started a cultural phenomenon.

“Heroes of Might and Magic V” Heroes of Might and Magic V melds the strategy and role-playing genres as it takes the venerable series to a new world, Ashan, where six factions vie for control: the humans, the wizards, the demons, the Necromancers, the Dark Elves, and the Wood Elves.

Play 30 intense missions spread across six campaigns, with six more custom missions available, and experience the new Dynamic Battle System, the gorgeous new 3D graphics engine, and more. Are you ready for the Heroes of Might and Magic V game trailer?

Movies
Grindhouse Grindhouse, noun: A downtown movie theater — in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the ’30s and ‘40s — known for “grinding out” non-stop double bill programs of B-movies.

From groundbreaking directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes the ultimate film experience: A double bill of thrillers that will recall both filmmakers’ favorite exploitation films. Grindhouse, opening in theaters today, will be presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director.

Tarantino’s film, Death Proof, is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez’s film explores an alien world eerily familiar to ours in Planet Terror. Welcome to the Grindhouse — it’ll tear you in two.

The Hoax Inspired by true events in the life of Clifford Irving, the writer who nearly pulled off one of the most audacious media scams in history, when his biography of Howard Hughes was published. Richard Gere stars as Irving, who claimed the book was based on in-person interviews with the reclusive billionaire, which were in fact completely bogus.

The Hoax opens in theaters April 13.

iTunes corner
Complete My Album Have you ever bought a single and later decided you want the entire album? Well, with the new iTunes feature “Complete My Album,” you may now be able to buy the rest of the album at a reduced price. You have up to six months after first downloading one or more songs from an eligible album to purchase the remainder of the album. Find out what albums are now eligible for you to complete.
MLB.com Opening week for Major League Baseball just kicked off, so you’ll want all your bases covered. Join Peter McCarthy for the MLB.com 2007 Season Preview, featuring highlights, exclusive interviews and analysis. Once you’re up to speed with the season preview, enjoy the Daily Rewind covering every key highlight, every game, every day. Peanuts and Cracker Jacks sold separately.

“Beautiful Disaster”Get the iTunes Store free Single of the Week — “Beautiful Disaster” by Jon McLaughlin. Check back every Tuesday for a new free download.

Download iTunes 7.1 for Mac OS X or Windows. It’s free.




QuickTime News, April 6, 2007, Volume 9, Issue 6

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