Rest in peace, neglected iTunes Movie Trailer app and website

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/rest-in-peace-neglected-itunes-movie-trailer-app-and-website/

by deazy • 3 years ago

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aetherson• 3 years ago

I remember the days of real player and desperately going to trailers.apple.com to get trailers that weren't blurry, artifact-filled garbage. It was a daily stop for me for a long time.

steve1977• 3 years ago

I think the Phantom Menace teaser was when I first downloaded Quicktime Player…

alexwasserman• 3 years ago

This was my first thought too.

I suspect lucky timing that a significant enough sequel came out with huge interest close enough to the trailer site being available drove people to it.

It was the first time I remember people going to see a movie specifically to watch the trailer more than the whatever movie it was that had the trailer. Then the first time people could actually watch trailers at will. Rental VHS/DVD had trailers but always a gamble which you’d get, and they had to be returned. For the first time you could download and rewatch it over and over.

Even with a lot of very hardcore WindowsForLife friends they all went to get QuickTime to watch the trailer.

wazoox• 3 years ago

When they advertised QT3 and its new wonderful codec "Sorenson"? :)

Spooky23• 3 years ago

It’s too bad - the replacement experience is beyond inferior.

Simulacra• 3 years ago

For a long time Apple trailers was my go to place because it lacked the exploding pop ups and advertisements of other trailer sites.

toddmorey• 3 years ago

“It was first launched as a sort of promotion for Apple's QuickTime architecture”

I remember seeing it have high quality video that started almost instantly. That just wasn’t a thing at the time.

someonehere• 3 years ago

Unrelated but does anyone remember QuickTime VR? I worked somewhere that had a copy of the software and it was amazing to make a 360 QuickTime file using a Sony Mavica on a tripod.

qingcharles• 3 years ago

QTVR was the shit at the time. Was ahead of its time.

HumblyTossed• 3 years ago

Ugh. What else is out there?

Rest in peace, neglected iTunes Movie Trailer app and website

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