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Thank you everyone that pointed out what the term DivX is now being used for. For those that remain uninformed try this- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2568590,00.html So now the question - What do we think of this new DivX codex? Well, um you see, copying movies to YOUR hard drive, from YOUR legally obtained DVD is not not illegal. Trading it with someone else - IS! Steve over at DVD Resource puts it very well, and we tend to agree. There is no reason to do this with movies if they are - 1. Made generally available in a timely manner. 2. Offered at an affordable price. That being said, we can only now hope that the studios are listening and change there ways. What would help stop the spread of DivX? 1. End Regional coding. 2. Get rid of Macrovision. 3. Push DVD prices to <$10 each. 4. Always release DVD's day and date with VHS. 4. Keep rentals cheap. It is our humble opinion that no one in there right mind would spend hours, encoding, uploading and downloading. Just to watch a movie that they could get for less then 10 bucks. As always we welcome your opinions and you can send them to us at divxfeedback@yanman.com and we will for now create a DivX message board at our discussions page as long as it does not become a legality issue. Thanks Yanman and friends.
Oh Yeah and for those that don't know the defunct Divx - Here is our old page.
Don't have any idea what DIVX was? Good go out and buy a DVD player, and forget the whole thing it's dead now anyway!. But if you really want to know what it is do some research at their web site (sorry even it is gone now), but don't believe everything you read and then come back here for the real scoop. Well no matter how much this and other sites fought it, DIVX (pronounced divics - like the car civic) has rolled out nationally. And no amount of letters to the founders of this company can stop this now. WE DID WIN IN THE END THOUGH So I have removed the comment feature from this web site for a number of reasons:
So I've decided to list our position on Divx and to provide a e-mail box for comments. If any of these Anti-Divx comments are good enough we will post them on our Anti-Divx comment of the month page. (Any Pro-Divx e-mails will be read and then promptly deleted. We have heard all the reasons why some people like this poorly thought out format and we still disagree. We own the site so our opinion is the one that counts, don't like it? Leave!) Top 10 Reason DIVX should fail. We are not going to explain these points her as they are explained in detail at the sites listed to the right, these are just the points that we agree with.
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