DivX, Inc., a digital media company, today announced that the Company will cease operation of its Stage6.com video service on February 28, 2008.
Following an exploration of strategic options that began in July 2007, the Company has decided to cease operation of the site and focus its resources on the Company’s core DivX technology licensing business while also continuing to power the distribution of DivX video content on third-party sites.
“Our core business is to work with a wide variety of partners to give consumers a high-quality digital video experience on any device or platform,” said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. “By no longer expending resources on Stage6, we sharpen our focus on creating a global standard for digital video while building a business that maximizes shareholder value. We will provide more information related the Stage6.com shutdown on our fourth quarter earnings call, scheduled for March 11, 2008.”
Videos on Stage6.com will be available for viewing and download through February 28, 2008. The Company will work with certain content publishers to migrate content to alternative web distribution platforms.
Link: Stage6
Following an exploration of strategic options that began in July 2007, the Company has decided to cease operation of the site and focus its resources on the Company’s core DivX technology licensing business while also continuing to power the distribution of DivX video content on third-party sites.
“Our core business is to work with a wide variety of partners to give consumers a high-quality digital video experience on any device or platform,” said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. “By no longer expending resources on Stage6, we sharpen our focus on creating a global standard for digital video while building a business that maximizes shareholder value. We will provide more information related the Stage6.com shutdown on our fourth quarter earnings call, scheduled for March 11, 2008.”
Videos on Stage6.com will be available for viewing and download through February 28, 2008. The Company will work with certain content publishers to migrate content to alternative web distribution platforms.
Link: Stage6
Lame excuse for not being able to make money!!!!
DivX software works fine on Vista. x64 support is what they need.
YouTube does the job for me.
YouTube does the job for me.
Have you seen some of the latest quality of videos on there? No?
Decent quality is possible with flash. No need for half-arsed services and extra software.
True, but so many things require flash other than YouTube.
ONLY Stage6 requires that stupid extra software they offer, no thanks.
True, but so many things require flash other than YouTube.
That's hardly Stage6's fault. As it is, it only requires their DivX web player. YouTube requires Flash. Same requirement (as in 1 external plug-in), different plug-in.
I think his point is that Flash is a de facto standard around the web. It's used on many (too many) websites, whereas the DivX Web Player isn't really used anywhere except Stage6 and other DivX-owned sites (and said plugin has numerous interesting practices like making extra folders in My Documents and a shortcut on your desktop).
In fact, these annoyances were the first thing I ever saw of the plugin, and decided there and then I wouldn't be installing it no matter what. Especially as you could quite easily just download the *.divx file from the Stage6 servers and watch at your leisure in whatever media player you prefer. (In before "but you still need the DivX codecs" - codec packs are very good, you get what you need to watch the films without all the software you don't need).
True, but so many things require flash other than YouTube.
ONLY Stage6 requires that stupid extra software they offer, no thanks.
You mean the DivX web-plugin? Uhhh, let me spell it out for you, the DivX codec is much better than flash and it is resource-friendly!
YouTube does the job for me.
Have you seen some of the latest quality of videos on there? No?
Decent quality is possible with flash. No need for half-arsed services and extra software.
I agree. Just look at Vimeo for example. The video quality is pretty good IMO.
Besides DivX sucks because they keep cramming all kinds of **** with their stuff.
Don't shut it down
But these kind of sites are like P2P sites, if one goes down then 3 more will pop up in it's place. I believe the pirate bay was working on it's own version of the site.
i liked the resolutions, quality and design of their site. i upload home movies there for me to share with family and friends.
i just hope that someone pulls a site like stage6 soon.
FYI, their site will probably have the slashdot effect with everyone trying to download everything before it goes down.
And for those that don't like all the crap packed into DivX, just use Xvid. It's free and works with Stage6.
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