And He Blogs

Jan 07 2006

DivX Has Landed!

2 responses so far

2 Responses to “DivX Has Landed!”

1. # Gardneron 07 Jan 2006 at 10:11 am

   Well, this is interesting. I knew about the Google deal but I didn’t know DivX was involved. I agree with you on scale: this could be huge.

   On my 3mb connection / 2.4 Ghz PC at home, the SD video came in very quickly and played back without a hitch. The HD video took longer to buffer, but it was still much faster than I’d expected. Playback had one stutter, and I think I saw a few dropped frames but in general it was dazzling. I did have to crank my display setting to 1280×1024 to get all of the “Shark Tale” frame in there. Looked great on my 19″ CRT, though my desktop icons are now quite small.

   Thanks for blogging this. It’ll be interesting to see if this development eventually drives the standard desktop display setting upward from the XGA level. I’m betting it will, and that will have ramifications for web page design too….

2. # In This Corner . . . Stage 6 — And He Blogs Archiveon 09 Oct 2006 at 11:15 am

   [...] I’ve touted DivX in the past, and you can’t go very long without hearing someone mention YouTube this or that. Well, for a while now, DivX has had a YouTube-like site called Stage 6, where they feature videos that are presented in the DivX format (you’ll need the DivX web player to see them). YouTube has not been short on content worth watching, though original content is not necessarily their forte. The Stage 6 site, while not nearly a YouTube, offers up an original film called In This Corner. It’s a short film set in the year 1988 and while maybe not Oscar-worthy, it does have a good combination of humor, suspense, and triumph, enough to make it well worth your time (did I also mention teenage angst and Nintendo). [...]

Leave a Reply

Name (required)

Mail (hidden) (required)

Website