LobsterSan
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Oy... Divx...
This was Circuit City's attempt at cornering the DVD rental market. The stupid fools.
The original concept was that you'd buy a Divx disc and bring it home. The discs costed about $5 or so. They only played once, and you had to activate them through a Divx enabled DVD player, which would send some sort of signal and activate the thing. Then the disc was dead... or there may have been some way to reactivate it by paying more money. Very stupid and wasteful.
Once that died off around 1999 (the summer i worked at CC), Divx as a term came to be assosciated with a video compression format that would allow >Mpeg1 quality in <Mpeg1 size. This set off a revolution in movie/TV show trading (well, that stuff always existed, but the quality wasn't so great and the file sizes were too big).
So are the new players old Divx equipped (bleeh!) or new Divx equipped (super cool!) ?
This was Circuit City's attempt at cornering the DVD rental market. The stupid fools.
The original concept was that you'd buy a Divx disc and bring it home. The discs costed about $5 or so. They only played once, and you had to activate them through a Divx enabled DVD player, which would send some sort of signal and activate the thing. Then the disc was dead... or there may have been some way to reactivate it by paying more money. Very stupid and wasteful.
Once that died off around 1999 (the summer i worked at CC), Divx as a term came to be assosciated with a video compression format that would allow >Mpeg1 quality in <Mpeg1 size. This set off a revolution in movie/TV show trading (well, that stuff always existed, but the quality wasn't so great and the file sizes were too big).
So are the new players old Divx equipped (bleeh!) or new Divx equipped (super cool!) ?
--> i never relaly understood why the winky face was always there... anybody know?
