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DivX CEO on Hackers, YouTube, Technology
Cintia Barreto writes to mention a Red Herring interview with Jordan Greenhall The CEO of DivX talks about the company's roots, a little bit about YouTube, and how entertainment technology grew out of the file-sharing days of the late 90s. From the article: "We sat down and said what you just created will do these things, people will adopt it, they will use it to transmit high-quality video, probably movies, probably television shows, probably porn--on the Internet--and in this domain and in this particular way. In some timeframe, they will want to be able transmit that from the PC into the living room. It will be the kind of content that wants to live in the living room--just like what happened with MP3. You had music files sitting in your PC and you wanted to take them portable. Somebody had to invent the portable MP3 player. In fact, I was at MP3.com at the time, I got to physically touch the first MP3 player ever made. It was made by these guys from Korea--it was literally duct tape."
Re: Apple and "Random", apparently "Random" is his way of saying, "we have no chance whatsoever, but I want to pretend like it could happen at any moment". Yes, of course, technically Apple could use DivX, but they've already chosen the video format they want to use, and integrated it into their OS and iPod. Even if DivX offered improvements to power-consumption, it would already take quite a bit for Apple to back away from h264 and encode the iTMS in some other format. Maybe... maybe if DivX was vastly superior in some way, then I could imagine it. But it isn't.
Thank you Xvid and H.264 Divx isnt really needed now :)
I noticed that he never mentioned how OpenDivX was once open-source, and then abruptly pulled away.
"What the community really wants is a Winamp, not a Linux."
The troll with karma.