PRESS RELEASE
October 10, 2000
Open, Industry Standard Streaming Technologies Feature New Web “Skip Protection” and Updated User Interfaces
- Hot Picks” guide highlighting cool, new QuickTime TV content;
- support for Sorenson Video 3*;
- easy developer support for delivering new user interfaces, or “skins”*;
- an improved digital video codec for improved iMovie™ playback performance;and
- real-time professional video editing support for professional applications such as Apple’s Final Cut Pro®.
- DDD, which takes existing video and encodes it in 3-D for viewing with 3-D glasses;
- Pulse 3D, which provides playback of low-bandwidth 3D interactive animations;
- BeHere, which delivers 360-degree streaming and on-demand video;
- SealedMedia, which allows content developers to “seal” their media and set up digital rights
- management (DRM) solutions for streaming live or on-demand content;
- On2, which provides high-quality broadband video, encoding and playback; and
- iPIX, which makes virtual reality software that provides dynamic imaging solutions for creating 360-degree spherical images and movies.
Availability
The public previews of QuickTime 5 for the Macintosh® and QuickTime Streaming Server 3 are available immediately for download from www.apple.com/quicktime and www.apple.com/quicktime/servers, respectively. The public preview of QuickTime 5 for Windows will be available by the end of the year. QuickTime 5 and QuickTime Streaming Server 3 will be available in early 2001.