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I know I'm coming into this conversation late, but I think all the responses to the original question have missed a very crucial point. To wit: QT on the mac is now *UNIVERSAL*. Simply pop in the QT extension into your Mac and you can play any qt movie practically anywhere. Whether or not it does this exceptionally well, the fact is that it is a function accessible to all color mac users (the play back that is). We might have similar frame grabber type hardware, but there is no built-in playing function that is as easy to implement and as transparent. This is analogous to the Mac clipboard, which is used so often in the Mac world and practically non-existent in the Amiga world, though we do have SOME sort of clipboard implementation – no one seems interested in taking advantage of it save a few products. Looking at it in a real-world situation, Apple has taken a big slice out of our desktop-video advantage. Even a poor "live-video" contraption like QT has made their edge in multimedia all the stronger. I only wish CBM could do the same kind of thing. At least they seem to be heading towards a standard re graphics. Video should be next.