Along with solid download numbers, there is a strong reception for MPEG-4.
Apple has released the download numbers
for QuickTime 6, announcing that more than 25 million copies have been
downloaded in less than 100 days.
“QuickTime 6 has taken off like a
rocket, with over 25 million downloads in 100 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 of Britney 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 addresses the growing demand for tools that encode to
the MPEG-4 standard—continuing Discreet’s long tradition of supporting the
latest and greatest encoding standards,” said Joseph Klingler, Discreet’s senior
director of Software Development.
Released on July 15, 2002, QuickTime 6 with support for
MPEG-4 is Apple’s industry-leading, standards-based software for developing,
producing and delivering high-quality audio and video over IP, wireless and
broadband networks.
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