Apple Previews New QuickTime Technologies

QuickTime 4 Downloads Soar Past 20 Million

QUICKTIME LIVE!, LOS ANGELES—Nov. 9, 1999—During the kick-off keynote today at the first-ever QuickTime™ Live! conference, Apple® previewed new QuickTime 4.1 and QuickTime Streaming Server 2 technologies. Apple also announced that more than 20 million copies of its QuickTime 4 software and more than 50,000 copies of its Apple Open Source Streaming Server have been downloaded since April.

“The adoption rates of QuickTime 4 and QuickTime Streaming Server have been phenomenal,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “New e-commerce and ad insertion features that we demonstrated today will set QuickTime even further apart from the pack.”

QuickTime 4.1 will feature enhanced functionality, including seamless ad insertion; improved firewall navigation; AppleScript® support for easy digital media creation and streaming; and support of synchronized multimedia integrated language (SMIL), the emerging standard for interactive media creation.

QuickTime Streaming Server 2 will feature password protection and a plug-in architecture that will let developers easily and quickly extend the functionality of the QuickTime Streaming Server. QuickTime Streaming Server 2 will also support third-party analysis tools that provide consolidated server reporting.

The QuickTime Streaming Server is the only open-source, standards-based Internet streaming solution that does not charge a per-stream tax.

Apple Computer, Inc. ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is now recommitted to its original mission—to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over 140 countries around the world.

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