There’s a new Iron Man trailer out, and it looks amazing – you can check it out in HD if you have Quicktime installed, although I had to chuckle at how badly it works because of Apple’s restrictions on the Windows platform. See, if you have a Mac, Apple lets you view Quicktime full screen – and who wouldn’t want to? But on Windows, Apple gave us a hobbled version of Quicktime that won’t go full screen – unless you pay $29.99 USD for the “Pro” version, which I haven’t done (why should I have to pay $30 to view a video?). So when I clicked to watch the deliciously high-res 1080p version of the new Iron Man trailer, which is 1920 x 1080, it loaded on my monitor (which is 1920 x 1200) with the play button off the screen. I couldn’t start the video until I repositioned the whole window to access the user interface, which was awkward. The fact that Apple considers full-screen video a feature worth paying for is quite ridiculous…
UPDATE: Well I’ll be…Apple added the option for full screen video in a recent dot-release of Quicktime (just press CONTROL+F) and I didn’t notice. It’s unlike most video apps in that double-clicking the video doesn’t make it go full screen, it just pauses it, and I didn’t think to check the menu. Thanks to Janak and Vincent for pointing it out…
What version of QT are you using? I’m using 7.4 on my Windows box, and CTRL F (or in the menu if you’re so inclined) blows it up fullscreen perfectly and I don’t own the Pro version for Windows.
Just for visual proof:
http://flickr.com/photos/vincentferrari/2245104136/
Jason – as Vinny says, you must be running an old version of QT. Versions 7.2 and greater have free full-screen support. Apple users yelled at Apple for years on this one, and they finally relented.
WOW. I had no clue! Guess I should have checked the menu, but I checked every version for so many years, I stopped checking because I didn’t think it was every going to happen. 😉 Thanks guys, I’ve updated my post.
Woohoo!
So the true question is how did it look?
How did it look? Friggin’ amazing! I’ve never complained about Apple’s video compression, just their app. 😉
Wow, they actually added a full screen feature for free?!?!? :rolleyes:
For years I’ve wondered why they considered this a feature worth paying for…