The problem with Divx was that it was mass marketed during the emergence of DVDs. Many consumers worried that because it offered so much more control over distribution, availability, and prices to the studios that they might use it to replace the DVD format. Thus, we would all be forced into a pay per play situation.
It also had a lot of privacy issues since it was forced to be connected to a phone line and dial the central divx servers every week or so to transmit a household's viewing stats. Sure it was mostly for billing, but still...
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The problem with Divx was that it was mass marketed during the emergence of DVDs. Many consumers worried that because it offered so much more control over distribution, availability, and prices to the studios that they might use it to replace the DVD format. Thus, we would all be forced into a pay per play situation.
It also had a lot of privacy issues since it was forced to be connected to a phone line and dial the central divx servers every week or so to transmit a household's viewing stats. Sure it was mostly for billing, but still...