TIL Circuit City created a proprietary disposable type of DVD called a DIVX that was viewable for only 48 hours after initial viewing unless an additional fee was paid. Which led to bankruptcy
TIL Circuit City created a proprietary disposable type of DVD called a DIVX that was viewable for only 48 hours after initial viewing unless an additional fee was paid. Which led to bankruptcy
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At the same time, nearly everything on PCs was watched with DivX, which made things annoyingly confusing
Divx was a video codec and much better than the others at that time. It was super confusing when Circuit City announced their DIVX program.
Yeah DivX was awesome. Really led the way in allowing videos to be shared online. I wouldn't have seen half the anime I did if it wasn't for it.
I think the first DivX I watched was Princess Mononoke. Not a bad start for sure!
Mine was a cam recording of Scary Movie 2. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Not the fault of the codec. I avoided cams after that and waited for the screeners.
But oh boy did I love my divx South Park episodes.
I probably haven’t watched a movie in 5 years.
Was .AVI the output of a DivX rip?
.avi is a container format. It can contain a divx video stream or almost any other encoding of video as well as audio streams and other media. It isn't exclusive to divx.
Yup.
OK I knew something sounded wrong about this but couldn't remember what
Guys, check out my new video streaming site that has a bunch more restrictions than you'd expect. It's called yOuTuBE. What do you mean "that's confusing"?
All this talk of DivX, but no mention of (the open source alternative) XviD? Maybe people confuse them. I think I had way more XviD videos at the time.
I just now realized that XviD was DivX backwards.
Back in the day, I never knew the difference between the two, I just saw DivX getting gradually replaced by XviD.