Posted by Joshua Zyber on 06/07/06 11:56

"Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> wrote in message
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>> It was very much a competitor to "open DVD". A couple of very big
>> studios (Disney and Fox) pledged exclusive support to DiVx
>
> Well, Disney while announced support of the format, it had announced
> support of DVD at the same time:
>
> http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FXG/is_n5_v11/ai_20491841
> Fox joins Disney, DreamWorks, Paramount, and Universal as the
> fifth movie studio to sign on to the Divx technology. (Two of the
> five, Disney and Universal, will also issue movies on the open DVD
> format.)
>
> Disney released some titles early on that were exclusively on DIVX,
> but
> they weren't exclusively releasing DIVX discs.

Disney's stated plan at the time was that they would only release their
crappy live action movies to DVD, while all of their animation product
(you know, the stuff people actually wanted) would remain exclusive to
DiVx so they could gouge parents for a new viewing fee every time their
children wanted to rewatch a cartoon.

> Likewise, Fox released both
> DVD and DIVX discs.

Not until DiVx died, I'm pretty sure.

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