Posted by Derek Janssen on 03/24/07 16:12

RobMac wrote:
>>
>>>The DVD format turned TEN yesterday....
>>>(10 years since the first commercial DVDs were available for purchase!)
>>>
>>>I plopped in my original "The Terminator", which was the very first DVD I
>>>ever bought, back in 1997, which IIRC was among the first few DVDs ever
>>>released.
>>
>>Remember when Netflix and DVDExpress.com^1 were just struggling little
>>renegade one-warehouse mom-and-pop operations, trying to unite a small
>>far-flung band of techies in the wilderness, like those college-town
>>Laserdisk stores did?
>
> Wasn't Blockbuster in league with the whole DiVX thing?
> I seem to recall them at the forefront for some reason.

The Digital Bits--the Grand Old Man of the DVD websites, which *has*
been around since "the whole DiVX thing"--has been marking the occasion
this weekend:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

(They also never throw any of their articles away:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/divx0317.html )

Derek Janssen (just wants to see who else feels a million years old
right now)
ejanss@comcast.net

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