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[Darwinian]

I'm curious Dar, why would I choose your player over any of the following?

Windows: WinAMP, Songbird, XBMC

Linux: Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, XBMC

Mac: iTunes

What is the hook?

First of all I wouldn't expect you to choose Hypercube over any other media player as I'm sure you could use more than one as each would have a different approach to handling your media files.

What I would like to think is that you would try Hypercube and really like it and enjoy using it. You'd really enjoy..

• The way it works
  
• Its intuitive nature and ease of use
  
• Its design
  
• Its plethora of interesting, useful and unique features
  
• The powerful playlist editor which incorporates a preview media viewer
  
• The ability to save practically every aspect of your viewing preferences such as Aspect ratio, Colour, Brightness, Audio, Zoom and Stretch etc. to the actual video you're watching so each time you play it those settings are resumed
  
• The virtual editing where you can cut sections of a video out and/or only play certain sections and/or mute any part of a video you want and/or hide any part and/or speed up or slow down sections and/or add comments to any section (like creating your own subtitles)
  
• The special attention given to watching video on extended displays such as H.D. televisions where all aspects of the video playing can be controlled from the playlist editor from your monitor without having to operate controls displayed on the T.V.
  
• Features such as 'Unpause in' which allows you to setup a movie to start at a specific time. Especially useful if like me, you have a television in another room connected as an extended display. This way I can start the movie, pause it and then instruct Hypercube to 'automatically' unpause it in, say, 5 minutes allowing everyone to get settled without me having to go back upstairs and hit 'play'
  
• Likewise the 'intermission' feature for long films where someone always says, about half way through, "can you pause it for a couple of minutes please?"
  
• Shutdown Options that allow you not only to control what happens when the last file has finished playing such as shut Hypercube down, launch any file or even shut down windows itself, but also has a shutdown timer built in.
  
• The ability to encrypt and password protect any media file so that it can only be played on Hypercube with the correct password. Very useful for shared computers where you have a video collection that you'd rather not be viewed by anyone else, if you know what I mean
  

And many more than I haven't mentioned, or created, or even thought of yet.

In fact, anyone with ideas for 'interesting' features, don't keep them to yourself.

So, basically I'd like to think that you would want to own a copy, not necessarily because you want to replace any other media player, which of course you certainly could, but simply that you really enjoyed having it as a useful part of your media playing system