Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 01/17/46 11:49

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:08:35 -0400, "Joshua Zyber"
<joshzyber@comcast.net> Gave us:

>"Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> wrote in message
>news:f2wnb7inabfr.e8ek0lofzj43.dlg@40tude.net...
>>> 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.
>
>It was very much a competitor to "open DVD". A couple of very big
>studios (Disney and Fox) pledged exclusive support to DiVx and had no
>intention of releasing their movies on standard DVD until DiVx finally
>flopped.
>
They would have turned no matter. It was bound to flop... the very
day it came out. It was NOT a competitor to std DVD... it was an
attempt at competing with std DVD. That's all it ever was too.

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