Comparison between MOV and WMV

MOV was originally developed by Apple as a file format for its QuickTime movie player. The MOV format presented a lot of advantages that are quite usable to everyday use but the proprietary nature of the MOV format was a major hindrance.

WMV is a format developed by Microsoft for Internet streaming and watching videos on a PC,it allows large video files to be compressed, retaining the rich quality of the video. It is a file format developed to store video content in a compressed format.

Summary:

1.Both MOV and WMV are lossy formats which sacrifices quality for file size

2.MOV was initially developed by Apple as a file format for QuickTime

3.MOV is the basis for the development of WMV

4.WMV works better and has more widespread support than MOV for streaming video

5.Saving your file to either MOV or WMV would result in the same video if you use the same codec

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