Unfortunate. Eggs in Baskets, people. Have redundant copies of your material on the net or at least on local storage.
Bill http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very > reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. > > Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative > about its chances of success compared to other formats. DivX bought Mainconcept last > year, who make h264 encoder & decoder software, so I thought they had some strategy for > the future to remain relevent, but if nobody is using DivX on the web and they closed their > own platform then I see them slipping further into irrelevance. > > There was some rumor that stage6 closed down rather than surviving as a seperate entity, > because the DivX board couldnt agree ownership percentages for the new entity. What a > waste! > > And people on stock forums wonder why their shares dont perform too well. Without a > successful strategy to keep their format relevent, I think DivX will just be a memory within > 5 years. > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "schlomo rabinowitz" <schlomo@> wrote: > > > > I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even > > offering random gigs along the way. > > What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the > > site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine > > stage6 has known that things were going to end up dark for a while now. It > > just seems so abrupt. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Renat Zarbailov <innomind@> wrote: > > > > > Despite the quality and speed of DIVX HD for streaming, compared to > > > FLV, I never trusted myself to upload any vids to Stage6. Encoding to > > > DIVX has always been error-prone and that was the only reason why I > > > stayed away from it. > > > > > > Renat > > > . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Schlomo Rabinowitz > > http://schlomolog.blogspot.com > > http://hatfactory.net > > AIM:schlomochat > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
