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Chroma feature movie player

Chroma is a video player for OS X "optimized for playing feature movies." Though there are many free options that will play most anything that Chroma will (QuickTime with Perian, VLC, mPlayerOSX, etc.), nonetheless Chroma has some nice features that may make it worthwhile for watching features in particular. These include "IntelliAspect" which eliminates the black (letterboxing) bars when viewing in full screen, built-in AVI/Divx support, built-in DVD support, fine-grained scrubbing controls, and a "Picture-In-Picture" Overlay mode, "which presents the movie in a small square in a corner of your screen, on top of your regular desktop."

Chroma is $22 and a demo is available from mirailabs. If Chroma is worth the price it's for rather subtle niceties like the IntelliAspect and the scrubbing controls. If you just want to play videos, one of the free options will likely be fine.