Comments on: DivX CEO Looks Beyond Web Video

By: DivX to Nix Stage6 « NewTeeVee

DivX to Nix Stage6 « NewTeeVee — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:35:30 +0000

[...] Stage6 was supposed to be a higher-quality YouTube, and while the site had decent traffic, it never caught fire. As a publicly traded company, DivX felt added pressure to perform, and in July of last year the company said it would spin off Stage6 in a move to decrease operating expenses. The spinoff was supposed to be done by the end of last year. [...]

By: DivX spinning out Stage6 « Gordon Mattey’s Blog

DivX spinning out Stage6 « Gordon Mattey’s Blog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:57:38 +0000

[...] out Stage6 January 4, 2008, 4:57 pm Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: divx, video I think DivX are too concerned about the street seeing the capital expenditure and freaking out when there are [...]

By: gordonmattey

gordonmattey — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:58:24 +0000

I think they are too concerned about the street seeing the capital expenditure and freaking out when there are no revenues.

If they keep stage6, they would learn a huge amount about delivering community oriented consumer video services. If you think about it, where does DivX go now? It has a great codec, with players in millions of consumer devices. It has bought MC for it's H264 capability so effectively it will support industry standards. Video availability is exploding, both professional and amateur and everything in-between.

What's left after they license the codec to everyone under the sun? DivX has to move beyond the codec.

They have to start delivering services to support the video experience for all types of video content. They have to dig deep into the video experience. Hell says the TV is the best device on which to watch video. If so, do something about it. That means keeping Stage6. Sure, DivX wants to enable one hundred or even one thousand stage6's, but they can't do this if they don't learn by doing one themselves.

Unless they have learnt enough already! What does it take to make a video community?

I reckon we will see DivX announce a sale, not a spin-off. Companies that are trying to solve the last-20 feet problem (Sandisk, D-link et al) have a huge oppo. Imagine if they acquired stage6. I can think of many cool services to deliver internet video to TV's. And with a community of 10 million viewers, it would be a kick start to make it a success.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:46:54 +0000

Well ok, but in your video, the guy says Stage6 has 10 million visitors per month, that is a lot considering Stage6 bitrate is 4-5 times more than Youtube, so the bandwidth used for Stage6 is equivalent to 50 million monthly visitors to Youtube.

As far as I have tested, streaming DivX looks better and is more usable than streaming WMV, Quicktime, RM for movies since DivX Web Player supports progressive downloading which is the best way to instantly watch DVD quality and still store the video on the hard drive.

By: For DivX, Web Video Is No Go - GigaOM

For DivX, Web Video Is No Go - GigaOM — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:46:28 +0000

[...] to cut costs, DivX would rather be a service provider to video sites than actually get involved, he tells NewTeeVee in this video interview. Share/Send Sphere Print Previous [...]

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:58:28 +0000

You’re right — I was talking about online video. Should have been more specific about it being web video that was streamed.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:30:13 +0000

What do you mean about DivX not being successful on the web? DivX is the number 1 video codec used worldwide for movies on the traded on the Internet since 1999.

About 30% of wordwide bandwidth is used for transfering DivX video files. Mostly using BitTorrent and Emule.

That certainly sells a lot of DivX Pro packs which serious encoders of those videos use to obtain the best video encoding quality.