Posted by Jay G. on 01/17/35 11:49

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:44:08 -0400, Joshua Zyber wrote:

> "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> wrote in message
> news:15hii04zyrr8n.1w9wuiadi07ns$.dlg@40tude.net...
>>>> DVD was an exception in the format
>>>>war.
>>>
>>> Bullshit. DVD is what replaced/displaced the Laser Disc market.
>>
>> I meant that DVD was the exception because there wasn't a competing
>> digital
>> video format of comparable quality that came out around the same time.
>
> You're forgetting DiVx.

Hasn't everyone? ;)

Seriously though, I did think of it, but I always thought of it more like
an extension to the DVD format than a competitor. After all, every DIVX
player was capable of playing DVDs. It was just the extra DIVX feature,
which allowed playback of special discs that you could "rent". If
anything, DIVX was a competitor to rental DVDs rather than DVDs as a whole.
I think DIVX had a "buy" option for their discs, but I don't think it was
ever seriously implemented.

-Jay

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