> From: "PrinceGaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 04:52:14 +0100
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: MD: MS Media Player 7 is so cool!
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Its been around for months but the first official release version of
> MS Media Player 7 is on the Microsoft Windoze update site, and though
> I shudder as I type the following words about an MS product-- this is
> just too cool to believe.
>
> I've just touched the surface of its features but even its audio
> playback screen has a fancy sound-to-light converter with loads of
> types to choose from. I believe it can rip CDs to MP3s but havent
> checked for that yet. At any rate it is light years ahead of the
> previous version of Media Player (everytime I went to the MS update
> and saw the Media Player 7 beta listed, I was tempted but resisted).
>
> Normally I tend to slag off MS but this product at first sight seems
> great, wots more it's free!!! Is this MS trying to kill of Real and
> MusicMatch and other multimedia software producers? There must be an
> ulterior motive behind this seemingly wonderful piece of software.
>
> You guys are the best I know to ask, any thoughts on it?
Personally I'm staying away from it.
I have installed it to try it out, but it was removed almost immediately.
I have a lot of video clips that play fine fullscreen under 6.4. I tried
them in 7 and it was like I had a low end Pentium instead of the 550@645
that I run.
WMP7 suffers BADLY from terrible refresh rate and laggy control response.
It may have some really cool features but if its that slow I'm willing to do
without them.
The one good thing I will say is that it seems to uninstall cleanly ^_^
--
James Budworth
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