Quick Time pro now or wait for QT7?

[Zaty]

I'm thinking about buying Quick Time Pro but I hesitate do to so. Is there a chance QT 7 might be coming soon or is it still safe to get QT 6.5 pro now? (I assume I would have to pay again for QT pro 7 even if it was released tomorrow, right?)

Thanks for your advice!

[HexMonkey]

Firstly, I doubt we'll see any major new versions soon, but it's possible. If you want to see a history of Quicktime releases to look for trends, go here (http://david.egbert.name/work/newmedia/quicktime/history/).

In the past, Apple have usually allowed QuickTime keys from the previous major version to work in a new one, eg a QT3 key would work in QT4, a QT4 key would work in QT5, but a QT3 key would not work in QT5 (I'm just making up these numbers though, it might have been slightly different, and I'm not sure if it's always been this way). I don't think there were any free upgrades to version 6 because (quoting Apple) "QuickTime 6 includes royalty-bearing technologies".

So it's hard to say if an upgrade to QT7 would be free (after looking on Apple's website I couldn't find anything about it). It probably depends on what technologies Apple includes in it and whether they have to pay royalties on it.

[748s]

Is there a chance QT 7 might be coming soon
only apple knows. NAB (http://www.nabshow.com/Default.asp) starts april 17th. they may shed some light on QT7 then, or they may not. it's always a gamble.