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DivX Making Hollywood Inroads
worm eater writes "CNet news reports that DivX is doing its best to become a digital video compression standard, and has been very successful in courting DVD manufacturers to adopt the DivX format. But will that be enough to beat out competing compression methods as a new Hollywood standard? It faces tough competition, such as MPEG-4, RealVideo and Windows Media. Who will win the standards race and what will that mean for the companies that push the various compression methods?"
Took me a year of watching Divx movies to wipe away my association of the name from that failed rental system years ago...
Did you just use the words "DRM" and "GPL/open source" in the same sentence? I'm almost surprised that we all didn't vanish in a puff of logic.(Douglas Adams - HHGttG reference)
As of 10/06/03, I hate COBOL developers.
CNet news reports that DivX is doing its best to become a digital video compression standard, and has been very successful in courting DVD manufacturers to adopt the DivX format.
The DivX formmated has successfully courted this manufacturer. (Rubs lovingly my spindle of CD-R's)
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
maybe he would have found his teacher to be more simpathetic if he'd remembered to include "\n" at the end of his argument to printf.
I didn't like laserdisc. My laserdisc "wallet"-case was huge, I felt like the girl on the big comfy couch when I would open it.
a good klepto, eh? ;-)
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