In February DivX Inc., developers of the best known MPEG-4 ASP video encoder in the world, decided to shut down their highly popular Stage6 video sharing site. Stage6 was initially established in 2006 as a way to show off their successful codec's potential. In only a few months it had attracted millions of users, and plans began taking shape to spin the service off as a separate company.
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I'm confident someone, somewhere, will eventually offer a similar file-sharing (or other) service for DivX content. I figure it's just a matter of time. DivX is just about everywhere nowadays - even in inexpensive DVD players.
Just days before they went 'belly-up', I downloaded 4 video-shorts from Stage6, and they all played back fine on my computer and portable Sony LCD player (which obviously has DivX built-in). The video quality was terrific.
Originally posted by 2colors: All they had to do was charge $1.00 per month. At 17 million visitors
a month they would have even made a profit. All that's coming out of DivX is BS.
They'd get in major trouble charging for access. That site was filled with copyrighted content. You can't charge people for illegal access to copyrighted material. You're in a gray area when your site is just hosting files that users upload. Its totally different when you charge because clearly you're profiting from the content thats available (which shouldn't be up there to begin with).
Outside of that, old man divx needs to be sent to the pastures. H.264 is the future here today.
Quote:Outside of that, old man divx needs to be sent to the pastures.
Try convincing the hardware manufacturers of that, who have come out with about a zillion different inexpensive dvd-player models in the last year or so which have Divx capability built-in (practically for free).
I really dont know what are the divx's board thinking about. How come is there no one interested in buying or investing stage6? such a foolish and stupid decision ever!
