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DIVX is fine for me Posted by Brad [IP: 139.95.251.1] on November 23, 1998 at 20:19:48: In Reply to: DIVX is fine for me posted by Charles Nguyen on November 20, 1998 at 14:51:46: Charles, Charles: Please tell me more about the advantages of Divx. I cannot justify purchasing an inferior product for the 3 "advantages" you mention. I am a proud owner of a second generation DVD player who will never comprehend the rationale behind those who endorse Divx. This is not some great technology that allows people who only watch movies once or twice and who don't care to get in the car to visit the rental store. The very premise behind Divx is one that attacks the rights of consumers to decide how they will entertain themselves. What will happen to rental video stores should Divx become the newly adopted home video rental format? They will be forced to cling to the VHS technology as long as VCRs are still sold and beyond. OR they will embrace open DVD (as they have already) and threaten the existence of Divx (which is clearly happening). Any situation which confuses the consumer from supporting DVD (not Divx) will have a terrible effect on the hastening of the world toward true digital television and high quality video. Divx will play your DVDs, true. But if my buddy next door just bought himself an open DVD player, we will be able to swap discs to our heart's content WITHOUT SPENDING ANYMORE THAN WHAT THE ORIGINAL DISC COST. Can you say that with Divx? What happens when you want to take your Divx disc over to your buddy's place who also has a Divx player? What happens is that he or she also gets gouged for $4.50, regardless of whether already paid the $4.50 at your house. What do you do if you have a kid who watches the Lion King every day at 3:30 PM religiously? Can you afford to support little Sally's habit at $4.50 every two days for each movie she watches? What makes you think that once you decide you want to own the open DVD format of the movie you really enjoy for playback on your Divx player, the movie will be available? The very existence of Divx has hampered the release of hundreds of titles and many more would likely be released on Divx only, so as to allow studios and CC to milk everything they can from you. I can't buy any movies from DreamWorks because I buy open DVD, you may not be able to get movies on Divx from some other studio because that studio has vowed not to support the format (are there any left who don't support Divx?...I don't know). Where the heck are you suppose to buy these Divx discs? No retail store in their right mind would sacrifice precious shelf space for a product that provides no revenue for them, only their competition. Why would a gas station or whatever carry these discs when they know that they could be getting recurring revenue from renting DVD's? And trust me, recurring revenue in one form or another is the key to all business success, both small business and large (Circuit City obviously understands this). Consequently, do you think you'll be able to browse the best selection of Divx discs in anywhere other than Circuit City? How close is the nearest CC to you? Are you willing to make that trip every time you want to rent a video? What is that store's hours? Are they open as late as the local video rental store? I doubt it. Sure you don't have to return the movies. But guess what, you don't own the movie. You just own viewing rights. You will have a whole bunch of viewing rights collecting dust on your shelf. Yeah, you can make the discs "gold" or whatever it's called, but then you're talking about eliminating the cost advantage over open DVD. As for "tossing" the discs when your done, that is precisely the kind of idiotic thinking that has our planet scrambling for a place to store all of our garbage. "Just toss it, just toss it," he says. Think about the effect this would have on our ecology if every damn fool with a Divx player threw out one disc every two weeks (I regularly rent DVDs and easily find one every two weeks that I would NOT rent again). Luckily, open DVD will crush the Divx greed phenomenon and render all Divx related advertisements at your local Circuit City useless. They will just have to find a use for those big colorful signs (they could use them to keep the stoves and refrigerators from scraping the linoleum on the other end of the store I guess). When Divx is gone and Circuit City doesn't take your player's "calls", your so-called collection of movies shall be demoted to a collection of mediocre frisbees. Oh, one more thing. Do any of the following qualities of a movie sound appealing to you: (if they do, you better get a standard open DVD player, because Divx just don't got it) Widescreen and/or anamorphic display Production notes and actor's bios DVD-ROM capability (no such thing as Divx-ROM - ask the Circuit City salesperson why none of their PCs have Divx players built in) Rental price depends on competition (I have rented DVD's for $1.66 each for 5 nights because of fierce competition) DTS decoding (I don't believe I've heard of Divx supporting the future DTS audio format)
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