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9 Responses to "I have to BUY QuickTime 7 Pro AGAIN?"

1. | Reply Jason M
   Posted 29 Apr 2005 at 11:45am #
   

   Dude, if you buy Tiger, you're still going to have to buy Quicktime Pro 7.

   Sorry man.

2. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 29 Apr 2005 at 12:01pm #
   

   Yeah, the money-hungry friggers!

3. | Reply Daniel
   Posted 29 Apr 2005 at 12:20pm #
   

   Yeah, that has always bothered me too. I bought QT6 (first one I ever used) and don't know if I'll buy QT7. I'll probably just deal with the nagging, because I really don't need the "pro" features.

4. | Reply Another Daniel
   Posted 29 Apr 2005 at 1:15pm #
   

   I wish there was a hack to get rid of the nagging without buying a QT7 Pro key. I'm not going to be using the Pro features; they're charging me for normal, nag-free usage.

5. | Reply Geoff
   Posted 29 Apr 2005 at 1:56pm #
   

   Who needs QT7Pro? I'm not saying no one needs the features but those features are a part of QuickTime 7, not QuickTime 7 Pro. Everything is there in the OS, the 'Pro' upgrade just lets you access those features within the QT7 viewer. So... if so many people are unhappy about this in QT5, 6 and now 7 why hasn't someone released their own application that opens up access to these features?

6. | Reply Neil
   Posted 29 Apr 2005 at 2:59pm #
   

   From what I've seen, there's no nag screen anymore - you just see all of the unavailable options greyed out in the menus with the "PRO" tag next to them.

   No nag screen - Hurrah!

   Having to pay again for features - Boo!

7. | Reply Ralph Scheuer
   Posted 29 Apr 2005 at 5:09pm #
   

   IIRC, QT3-4 (or was it 4 to 5?) was a free upgrade. Quicktime 6 brought MPEG4 which meant Apple has to pay licensing fees for every encoder, and QT 7 brings H.264 which AFAIK also means licensing fees to be paid to MPEG-LA.

   So I find it quite understandable that QT Pro 7 is a paid upgrade...

8. | Reply Tim Buchheim
   Posted 29 Apr 2005 at 10:33pm #
   

   I bought whatever the first non-free one was (3?) and then got a free license for it with some OS upgrade (8.5?) .. I haven't bought it again since. So Apple, can I trade in my completely unused second license for QT3 for a QT7 license? 😉

   You'd think they could afford to include a QT license with every copy of Mac OS X. Or perhaps with hardware .. they bundle a lot of crap with their machines already, why not bundle their own damn software?

9. | Reply John C. Welch
   Posted 30 Apr 2005 at 12:51am #
   

   you didn't have to pay for every single version. I've only paid a couple times since three