Apple’s QuickTime 6 Downloads Top 25 Million

Apple today announced that morethan 25 million copies of QuickTime 6 have been downloaded in less than 100days, demonstrating strong demand for the open standard MPEG-4 format uponwhich QuickTime 6 is based. Combined with nearly 200,000 downloads of thefree QuickTime Streaming Server and Darwin Streaming Server, Apple is theindustry leader in providing end-to-end MPEG-4 streaming solutions.

“QuickTime 6 has taken off like a rocket, with over 25 million downloads in100 days”, said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Why pay for a proprietary streaming solution when Apple is offering the first widely distributed end-to-end, open-standards-based streaming solution for free?”

“Jive Records used MPEG-4 to deliver a massive number of video streams ofBritney Spears’ on-line exclusive, ‘I Love Rock and Roll’”, said Jeff Dodes, vice president of New Media for Jive Records. “QuickTime 6 has allowed us to deliver incredible quality audio and video from one of our hottest artists to her fans around the world”.

“‘Yankee Hotel, Fox Trot’ has been WILCO’s most successful album to date, blowing away all industry expectations, and we couldn’t have done it without QuickTime and MPEG-4 on our site”, said Tony Margherita, manager of WILCO. “We’re even doing a live broadcast from the ‘930 Club’ in Washington D.C. this week using MPEG-4 because it’s the best way to deliver quality content at a wide range of bandwidths”.

“Discreet cleaner 6 for Apple Macintosh supports QuickTime 6 and addressesthe growing demand for tools that encode to the MPEG-4 standard-continuingDiscreet’s long tradition of supporting the latest and greatest encodingstandards”, said Joseph Klingler, Discreet’s senior director of Software Development.

Released on July 15th, QuickTime 6 with support for MPEG-4 is Apple’sindustry-leading, standards-based software for developing, producing anddelivering high-quality audio and video over IP, wireless and broadbandnetworks. More than 126 million users downloaded the QuickTime Player viathe Internet in the last year, while tens of millions more copies weredistributed via digital cameras, software titles and enhanced music CDs.QuickTime 6 is available as a free download to Macintosh and Windows usersat https://www.apple.com/ie/quicktime.

 

 

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