I had both players tuned to NPR at the same time, and despite WMP 15 or 20 sec. delay I have to say that it never skipped... that is until it quit unexpectedly.

All in all I was disappointed with Quicktime's player performance because it skipped a lot in comparison. (I have a 56k dial-up connection, by the way)

I really hope Apple addresses the skipping problem and sudden loss of audio or video, which often happens. Does anybody know why this happens and why it hasn't been corrected?

[bleen]

Install the QuickTime 5 Public Preview 2 (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview) make sure that your control panel is set to 56k Modem/ISDN. Try NPR again. Apple with QuickTime 5 is implmenting Skip Protection for Audio and Visual. So if it skips or if you find bugs or whatever send in a bug report (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/feedback/qtpreviewform.html)

We want QuickTime 5 to be the best Media platform so lets help it be that.