One must wonder why Divx as a digital format was born, and i can not help tend to lean towards the thought that it was an attempt (and a very succesful one too) to allow the mass of people to fit an entire movie onto a single CD, this is beascue VCD althought an offical standard thoughout the world never really dampened the thirst for people to be able to watch movies from cd's the two drawbacks, bad movie quility and effective running time (i mean who wants a movie on two cd's?) and so divx emerged, and as DVD became ever popular, divx was its ripped cousin! Divx is popular beacuse apart from the excellent format the price of CD burners has really dropped through the floor, and one can see that DVD burners are now almost in grasps of the mass's they are getting cheaper by the day, this is why i am thinking that the divx is a dying format, once people have access to DVD burners why use such a format? the only place left for divx is the internet because with broadband fast becomming popular (finally!) divx is doing to movies what mp3 did to music. Any way to conclude, with Blue-ray around the corner, DVD recordeable (standalone not inside pc's) and dvd burners all falling in price the days of divx is fast outnumbering. I would like to hear from other users wether they think divx will survive or not please reply to this post with your views
Since buying a Pioneer DVR 104 I haven't looked back. £199:99 OEM unit 8 months or so ago. Smartripper 2.41 DVD2One v1.11 (only needed to compress DVD-9 to DVD-R 4.36Gb size) Nero 5.5.9 [or above] 2 hours max & you've got a quality back up that plays in virtually all new DVD Players. KiSS have brought a DivX DVD Player out but it's pricey at the moment (so much so that you'd be better off buying a Phillips DVD+RW Stand Alone/Set Top DVD Recorder-£399:99) My £0:02 worth [bold]herbs[/bold]
The reason DivX is so popular has little to do with fitting a movie on a CD. It's all about piracy. DVD roms won't kill off DivX because DivX has a fantastic quality to filesize ratio, which makes them perfect for downloading. DivX will die off eventually, as more and more people get superfast internet connections, but so long as people use dial-up/slow connections DivX will be around.
[bold]Quote: 'Your missing the point'[/bold] Am I? I dont think so... I was just giving my opinion in general and not to an individual the same as yourself. The KiSS DVD Player plays DivX so I'm actually thinking that DivX may well survive because the player will come down in price (eventually) herbs
[bold]shorty2k[/bold] They reckon Blu-Ray will probably not make it out of Japan. Of no use to me here in UK (D'oh)
I want to store my personal videos on external hard drives. I am hoping that DivX will let me do that. The new satellite dish receivers store 100 hours of video with no quality loss. It seems that the best compression is being hidden from the public.
Herbs... What have hardware DivX players got to do with anything? DivX was never, and WILL never be a popular commercial format. As I said, the popularity of DivX is purely down to the fact that it's good quality for it's filesize, and that makes it easy to distribute over the internet. If it wasn't for piracy, no one would give a crap about DivX, just as they don't about VCD (in the UK). For instance, VCD is largely unheard of in the UK, but in Asia it's massive. It's (as with DivX) popularity isn't down to hardware, but simply because it's ease of distribution on the black market.
If indeed it is all about fitting on a CD ( I agree with your piracy point )as you stated then why am I answering questions about authoring avi-mpg-vob for depositing on a DVD-R because file size exceeds 800Mb+ after converting has been undertaken in the DVD-R for Advanced Users/DVD-R for newbies forums every so often. As said myself , I was only giving an opinion !! I'll unsubscribe from this thread now because you do have quite valid points & obviously are intitled to your own opinion. I still believe that DVD rip , author , then burn...is catching on fast in the UK & will only continue to grow as one button solutions become available : ) PEACE-OUT
