Fizzzzle Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Something made it pop in my head. Honestly, if you think about it, DIVX was pretty far ahead of its time. Pop a disc into your DVD player and it's only watchable for 48 hours unless you call a number to extend the time and pay like $5. That's pretty much how we rent movies now, only it's all streaming. People fucking hated DIVX at the time, but really they were just about 10 years too early to the party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Huh, I only remember it was a video codec, I had no idea about the DVD rental stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Jason said: Huh, I only remember it was a video codec, I had no idea about the DVD rental stuff. It was only for a small amount of time, but that's mainly what I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 DIVX - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG It’s interesting to read about in hindsight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 47 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said: Something made it pop in my head. Honestly, if you think about it, DIVX was pretty far ahead of its time. Pop a disc into your DVD player and it's only watchable for 48 hours unless you call a number to extend the time and pay like $5. That's pretty much how we rent movies now, only it's all streaming. People fucking hated DIVX at the time, but really they were just about 10 years too early to the party. I mean, that’s also kinda how we rented movies since the 80s too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 1 minute ago, stepee said: I mean, that’s also kinda how we rented movies since the 80s too. Sure, but it was the first attempt I'm aware of to digitize it with DRM rather than rely on rental stores. I like stuff like this. They did things essentially the way we do it now, they just did it way too early before technology was capable of making it convenient so everyone hated it. It's like how no one remembers that Intel made one of the first mp3 players. It could only hold like 40 songs, the compression was ass, and loading it with music actually required like knowledge of how to use windows files, which amazingly is a hurdle for some people. Especially 20 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 2 hours ago, Fizzzzle said: Sure, but it was the first attempt I'm aware of to digitize it with DRM rather than rely on rental stores. I like stuff like this. They did things essentially the way we do it now, they just did it way too early before technology was capable of making it convenient so everyone hated it. It's like how no one remembers that Intel made one of the first mp3 players. It could only hold like 40 songs, the compression was ass, and loading it with music actually required like knowledge of how to use windows files, which amazingly is a hurdle for some people. Especially 20 years ago. mini disc 4 life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 37 minutes ago, stepee said: mini disc 4 life I'm going to go to my grave still salty about how Sony Music forced Sony Electronics to cripple MiniDisc because they were neurotic about piracy. MiniDisc was always a doomed format, if nothing else the iPod would have eventually killed it, but it should have been a lot stronger back in the days when MP3 players were basically 512 MB thumb drives with headphone jacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 You could at least use a computer to convert mp3s and add them. I remember it taking forever though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Fuck yeah I remember DIVX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Yeah, then they started trying a bunch of different stuff. It didn't work out. RIP DIVX and RealPlayer 🌹 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Yeah, then they started trying a bunch of different stuff. It didn't work out. RIP DIVX and RealPlayer 🌹 RealPlayer was terrible, the volume control was just a direct hook to your system volume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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