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From: "Tsuki_yomi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 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
Its good to know it uninstalls cleanly and doesnt leave a load of dodgy "I'll use this
for such and such" lying around
I must say I was slightly suprised to find my K6-3/450 giving a rather jerky picture
when the sound-video eindow was opened beyound
a window size of about 640x400
Esp as my pretty good videocard (overclocked videocard I should say) can cope with
Quake II like a walk in the park
Cheers,
PrinceGaz.
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