My memory of Circuit City and DivX. I went to a CC in my city to browse for a new DVD player. The poor sales guy approached me and started his spiel. I politely declined and kept browsing DVD players. He again gave me more spiel about how dvd players may be obsolete once DivX becomes more popular. I even told him that’s a possibility, but in the meantime, I already had a few DVDs at home that I wanted to watch and needed a DVD player now. He looked a bit stressed and I saw him looking around towards his manager, who looked like he was nodding at him to keep going. I felt so sorry for the guy. He looked so flustered and I felt so uncomfortable that I left after a bit of browsing and went somewhere else and bought my new dvd player.

@TheMediaHoarder

Жыл бұрын

Circuit City ordered everyone to sell this harder than anything before in history. I heard if you dared to say anything bad about DIVX, you were fired. I had lots of fun going in and shooting down any attempts to sell me on this. The last time they tried I just said “I don’t want a coin box on my TV.” Though now I have several streaming devices so the joke might be on me.

@Gannooch

5 ай бұрын

DVD players may be obsolete when Divx becomes popular. BWHAHHAHAHAHA! Jump to 2023, Divx is not only obsolete we but it’s buried 6 feet under in the Electronics cemetery while DVD players are now almost completely obsolete.

@Gannooch

5 ай бұрын

DVD players may be obsolete when Divx becomes popular. BWHAHHAHAHAHA! Jump to 2023, Divx is not only obsolete we but it’s buried 6 feet under in the Electronics cemetery while DVD players are now almost completely obsolete.

@johngoldsworthy7135

4 ай бұрын

@@GannoochDVD players are not obsolete. If DVD is obsolete, then CDs are obsolete. Sorry but your streaming media utopia is a farce

@iscariot666

4 ай бұрын

@@johngoldsworthy7135Agreed. The cope is hilarious.

"It's almost impossible to believe that DIVX could go under!" Oh boy. "TOO BIG TO FAIL" mentality.

@Tornado1994

4 жыл бұрын

DIVX DVD: One the Biggest Marketing FAILs In Retail history and one of the most perplexing, idiotic, and mindnumbingly obtuse proposals ever to be created. It’s not surprising that it crashed and burned. What’s surprising is that it got made. INVESTORS actually said yes to this. How and Why investors were stupid enough to green light such stupid shit is beyond me. Facepalms

@ryzenman6460

3 жыл бұрын

Divx is awesome

@dirtpipedan

2 жыл бұрын

DIVX? Go outta business? Whattaya nuts??!

@dirtpipedan

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tornado1994 hahah yeah. When you have to create a video to train your sales people to defend it right off the bat it's a bad sign

@Tornado1994

2 жыл бұрын

@@dirtpipedan Indeed.

“People are gonna wanna give them away, sell them at garage sales….” Boy that salesman had it RIGHT.

"It's almost impossible to believe that DIVX will go under." - Circuit City salesperson right before the bank foreclosed.

"DIVX Gold movies will be purchased ready for unlimited play." So in other words, they're normal DVDs.

@DevineInnovations

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. What's the point?

@FMecha

3 жыл бұрын

No DIVX Gold movies were produced (likely) for this reason. Remember you would have paid full price for those too and they would only play on DIVX players.

@TheMediaHoarder

2 жыл бұрын

The difference in these was that they could be disabled at will. I do have the in store demo disc which plays only on DIVX players and unregistered ones at that.

@drfsupercenter

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMediaHoarder Does it still work? I'd be curious to see what's on that disc. I know that DIVX discs are just regular DVDs (and can be read by a PC DVD drive) but with different files that are encrypted in such a way that they won't play. I would love if you still have that demo disc and can check it out...

@TheMediaHoarder

Жыл бұрын

@@drfsupercenter Someone else here has a video of it. It has a clip from Tomorrow Never Dies as a demonstration, and the same promo that was on the free VHS tape they sent out, but it’s in 5.1 sound. Wish I had a way to capture that. I have the DIVX player hooked up just to play that disc!

10:00 "It's almost impossible to believe DIVX will go under! *HEHEHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAEHEHEHAYEHYAHE*

@PaulHenning84

8 жыл бұрын

+Piefav2 love your profile icon

@Piefav2

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@micajoeh0

7 жыл бұрын

to be fair, it still exists.

@Piefav2

7 жыл бұрын

Where? Divx & Circuit City went down a while ago.

@PaulHenning84

7 жыл бұрын

You're thinking of DivX, notices the capitalization. Even then. RG's prefer MKV now.

Wow, after watching this I am running out and buying a DIVX player at Circuit City today!

@ArnoldGaming

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@jspl2000

2 жыл бұрын

Havent heard of "circuit city" yet

@billygowhoop

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure nothing will ever happen to those two stalwart institutions.

@AAAA-gj7tn

Жыл бұрын

@@billygowhoop They've both been gone for over a decade.

@names_are_useless

Жыл бұрын

@@AAAA-gj7tn r/whoooosh

It’s the simple task of watching a DVD but with extra steps. How could it fail.

3:25 Wait, you mean I can *pause* a DVD???? Revolutionary! Thank God DIVX has bestowed this brand new feature to me, the grateful customer

@misterninetyseven2898

2 жыл бұрын

Reverse! Fast forward! Skip from scene to scene! ... Just like you can do on a normal DVD! But hey, don't tell the marketing guys that.

@jasoncinema

2 жыл бұрын

And they considered the proper aspect ratio of a film an unnecessary special feature. 🙄

I was working for Circuit City and got a front row seat to this fiasco. Even *I* knew this was stupid beyond belief. THIS is what happens when you let MPAA lawyers design a video format.

@khuntington

6 жыл бұрын

Kagami101 how much was the going rate to unlock unlimited plays? Was it comparable to a DVD sale at the time?

@pauleckert4321

5 жыл бұрын

@@khuntington I had a friend who had one. It would depend on the movie. Newer ones could range from 15 to 25. Older movies tended to be 15. But all Disney animated were 25. Sucks for all those people who built their collection with these discs. Luckly for my friend he only got a few of them and stuck with normal dvds.

@joejohnson5410

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was working at Good Guys. We were laughing our asses off about dvx

@Tornado1994

4 жыл бұрын

DIVX DVD: One the Biggest Marketing FAILs In Retail history and one of the most perplexing, idiotic, and mindnumbingly obtuse proposals ever to be created. It’s not surprising that it crashed and burned. What’s surprising is that it got made. INVESTORS actually said yes to this. How and Why investors were stupid enough to green light such stupid shit is beyond me. Facepalms

@Tornado1994

4 жыл бұрын

@@deckard97 Yes. Drove them into the ground.

"The 48 hour period begins when you push play, not when you leave the store. That could be...the next year." Yeah, about that.

I live about 2 blocks away from Circuit City’s old corporate headquarters... it’s now a massive call center for like 2 or 3 different insurance companies . 😂

I worked on the home audio sales floor for Good Guys when this Fiasco was unfolding. And I was working there when it went under. Even though Good Guys was one of the outlets for the DivX format, within nanoseconds of the announcement of the formats death, the managers could not wait to rush the sales floor to tear down the DivX display. Every one that worked there, right up through management, hated DivX!

@andyz9793

2 жыл бұрын

the berlin wall of optical disc video formats

"Here's the bottom line... it's almost impossible to believe DIVX could go under" 😆

“DivX is too big to fail.” - Didn’t you hold my beer, said the Titanic.

I remember this. My dad bought my mom a DVD player back in 1997. He had to decide if he wanted the Divx feature. He wisely declined.

@jboy27

3 жыл бұрын

i had one they refunded you 100$ when they went out

@intotheabyss42478

2 жыл бұрын

nobody asked for your life story! smfh

@jimmybuffet4970

2 жыл бұрын

It was a function of the player. So it still would’ve been playing DVDs.

@azmrblack

2 жыл бұрын

Considering they werent founded until 1999 that's kinda funny...

@thissucksiwannagobac

4 ай бұрын

@@azmrblack Wrong. 1997. Google before you comment, yeah?

"What if DIVX goes out of business?" Salesman could not cover his ass. I would have asked "where the fuck are the DVD players" and leave.

@tompug5736

9 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA, I just copied the LINK to that time because I laughed so hard! 10:00

@tompug5736

9 жыл бұрын

I almost died laughing over: ** DivX movies are 4:3 aspect ratio because customer demand for widescreen is very low to nonexistent, HAHAHA NOT!

@joshuaychung

8 жыл бұрын

That's right. I remember not buying DIVX back then because of the 4:3 aspect ratio issue. My roommates and I were video snobs, and we demanded 16:9 even if that meant watching at a worse resolution (given both aspect ratios were playing on the same TV).

DIVX gold means I can play the disc an unlimited amount of times? Wow! So it's just a regular fucking DVD?

@AndieGarcia

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty Mich

@patsfan4life

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah but better because DIVX

"What if DIVX goes out of business"? *IT WONT*

Movie studios thought this was their golden goose. A DVD you had to continuously pay to watch

9:09 "Consumer demand for [widescreen] is just not there." Boy that aged about as well as potatoes in sunlight.

@sillerbarly4927

Жыл бұрын

I think you mean milk with vinegar mixed in

10:21 the slow zoom in on the salesman was the greatest example of foreshadowing ever filmed

@velvetpilot2008

2 жыл бұрын

I think you'll agree it's gonna be a big hit!

@purefoldnz3070

Жыл бұрын

if he doesn't make that sale his family wont eat tonight. Plus coffee is for closers.

I worked at Circuit City during this time. The impression I got was Circuit City corporate knew it was a half baked idea, and they just pressured their sales people to force it on EVERY customer that walked in the door, even if they weren't looking at DVD/DIVX players.

I feel bad for people who got one then started a collection and turned most into unlimited play. Man they got screwed big time.

I went to Best Buy looking for this. They didn't have it or any movies for it. Must be sold out. What a hot product!

DIVX & Chill

I'll never forget looking at DVDs and Circuit City and the salesperson telling me that my DVD player was going to be obsolete because of Divx! And I'll never forget seeing him not even a year later after DivX failed haha

@Terranallias18

5 жыл бұрын

What he say

@marqterre9058

3 жыл бұрын

Are you and him still dating?

@Hyxtryx

8 ай бұрын

@@marqterre9058It was a bitter divxorce.

This brings back HUGE MEMORIES!! I was working at Circuit City when this was released and DEFINITELY remember this training video... When I first seen this, I already guessed it was going to fail but I tried my hardest to get it out there but was EXTREMELY HARD!! :(:(

Hey, DIVX sounds like the movie viewing format that i know my family is going to enjoy! The best part, theyre available at my favorite electronics store, Circuit City! Why, they are only second banana to Radioshack, i can depend on their sticking around in the electronics market!

10:00 What if DIVX goes out of business? Meanwhile, I look to the right of this video at the next recommended video...... "Abandoned - Circuit City". Ouch!

So basically Divx was just Blockbusters with extra steps.

“But they’ve found that the consumer demand for (widescreen and other features) is just not there.” Wow. DIVX was completely out of touch with its customers.

@RazoE

3 жыл бұрын

They actually found out consumer demand for Circuit City wasn't there.

@misterninetyseven2898

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that didn't age very well did it? You look at this and then you start to understand why Circuit City went under 10 years later.

@Tornado1994

2 жыл бұрын

@@misterninetyseven2898 DIVX cost Circuit City, EVERYTHING.

Divx failed 1 year and 1 week after its launch. 😂 so it’s NOT impossible

No wonder Circuit City went belly up, it invested in shit like this.

I have my Panasonic DVD-X410 siting in my home theater/library right now. And a nice stack of DIVX discs to go along with it! Sure, I can't watch a single one. But I buy them up every chance I get! Thanks for posting this video!

@KL-bc1eg

6 жыл бұрын

lol, idiot

@JohnSmith-ix5gx

6 жыл бұрын

+Fem Borg well...he did say he has a sickness

@Rountree1985

4 жыл бұрын

Kate Lin why call him an idiot? He’s just collecting something that hardly anyone else wants. The alternative option is sitting in a landfill somewhere in Nevada.

@Marzimus

3 жыл бұрын

You made my day with your comment. 😂 I remember a person I knew buying a DIVX player and thinking, as a child, it was a terrible idea. Glad to know you're single-handedly keeping the format alive. 🤘

The funny thing is that DIVX DID go under. The format was discontinued on June 16, 1999. DIVX players that were converted still played discs up until June 30, 2001. After that date, all players had stopped playing discs by then. That rendered the whole format totally useless. I do wonder if anyone's come up with a workaround to make players work again, though.

@louiemantia

2 жыл бұрын

Whoa, DIVX went under?!

@nomadcowatbk

2 жыл бұрын

and they told every manufacturer to build them DivX players or they'd stop selling their TVs

@AAAA-gj7tn

Жыл бұрын

@@louiemantia Yes

@dhl-96

5 ай бұрын

So they can't even play regular DVD's?

No more DIVX...No more Circuit City.

"Digital" movie purchases, especially movies being released that way several weeks before they're available on disc, are the new DIVX!

@names_are_useless

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much. Streaming Services are, effectively, the new Rental System: you can only watch a Movie/Show when it's on the platform for a limited time, and if you don't continue paying the monthly rental fee, you can't watch it at all. And now many movies don't even release on DVD or Blu-Ray. So for some Movies/Shows you want to have an offline copy of to watch (and it may be because NO streaming service streams it) ... pirating becomes the only option. Young, naive, optimistic me was looking forward to an age when we could pay a SINGLE 1-TIME FEE for OFFLINE video files of Movies and Shows ... yeah, that never happened.

0:09 "...a product that will forever change how we watch movies at home". No, no it won't.

10:00-- pure hilarity!

@Tornado1994

4 жыл бұрын

DIVX DVD: One the Biggest Marketing FAILs In Retail history and one of the most perplexing, idiotic, and mindnumbingly obtuse proposals ever to be created. It’s not surprising that it crashed and burned. What’s surprising is that it got made. INVESTORS actually said yes to this. How and Why investors were stupid enough to green light such stupid shit is beyond me. Facepalms

I've never heard of this DIVX technology because unlike Walmart, they don't just put Circuit City or Best Buy everywhere. That's ONE of the reasons it didn't catch on.

@thystaff742

2 жыл бұрын

It didn't catch on cause people wanted something they could play unlimited times regardless of time.

It’s almost impossible to believe that DIVX will go under.

Man, was this product so doomed from the start. If Divx had actually hung in there against all odds, they would have been slaughtered by Netflix.

@sillerbarly4927

Жыл бұрын

Actually Netflix was around that time I think, can't remember when their mail ordering Started but I know it has to be close to very early 2000 since it was around the same time before Block busters went under

@Watcher3223

Жыл бұрын

@@sillerbarly4927 I never claimed that Netflix wasn't around at the time, just saying that Netflix would have slaughtered Divx if it had actually held on. The mail rental model offered better convenience and selection than Divx but, more to the point, Divx would have been rendered obsolete by VOD streaming.

The thing about DVR's is that they eventually fail, need to be replaced, and you have fun loading up the new one. DIVX sounds like a DVR recording that sticks around forever, taking up physical space on your shelf, and eventually pisses you off majorly when the company goes under! Actually...It's kind of like "purchasing" a title on Amazon Instant. If the server ever goes bye-bye, so does your purchase.

@3DJapan

5 жыл бұрын

Servers have backups.

Who ever sold this to Circuit City was the best sales person of all time. I worked there and everyone knew this was not going to work. Circuit City was trying to get into a reoccurring revenue business so bad upper management just drank the Kool Aid. And we all suffered for it.

They amazing part was how the tv screen is working even though no wires are going from DVD player to tv.

@MrKosheen85

3 жыл бұрын

Cos of all the science.

Bet they thought it was impossible for Circuit City to go under too! Thanks for uploading this, heard about this tape back then and always wanted to see it. Circuit City got what it deserved in the end!

@thystaff742

2 жыл бұрын

They knew, and this was part of the plan in taking down department stores.

Change the X to an E and it spells DIVE. They should have known.

People with advanced business degrees thought DIVX would be successful. Let that sink in. The kicker is, there was a market for digital video rental. Once broadband penetration reached a certain point and solutions like iTunes came around, the option to rent a movie digitally for $3 and have it piped to your house over fiber became very attractive. DIVX? Not so much.

I feel bad for the employees it's one thing to have to sell a shitty products but it's another when you need to sell the shitty product to be able to eat for the week.

i havent had my divx touched since college

if I remember right they killed it before any gold movies were offered. I think the training manuals said it was going to be about the same price as a DVD.

8:50 "There will be some resistance" We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.

@nomadcowatbk

2 жыл бұрын

Divx was unworthy of assimilation

"disc recycling bins" Wish I knew where those were. Look at all the electronic waste we have nowadays. DIVX certainly didn't help in reducing it...

Just like Circuit City, Divx is a distant memory.

@Astolfo2001

2 жыл бұрын

Thank Arceus that it is as DIVX was an terrible idea with awful execution.

“They found that consumer demand for [widescreen]’s just not there” My brother in Christ people paying 400 dollars for a DVD player in the late 90s are the EXACT demographic of people who ARE demanding widescreen lmao. Nearly all the laserdiscs released after 1995 were widescreen for that exact reason!

I watched the whole video and I still don't know what DIVX is.

@paulhendrick5857

7 жыл бұрын

Unbelievably confusing.

@mookixox

7 жыл бұрын

In that case...You sound like the perfect individual to believe Human Evolution!

@KL-bc1eg

6 жыл бұрын

ya, because...god. Makes sense.

@JaceD4V1S88

6 жыл бұрын

Ultraviolet mustve bought out DIVX Jesus h what a shit program UV is

@jmowreader9555

6 жыл бұрын

Yoshi: It was Circuit City's attempt to enter the video rental market. DIVX was a highly-encrypted form of DVD, with all the videos on it in "fullscreen" format. When you bought a DIVX disc, you could play it for two days after the first time you put it in. You could pay an extension fee and watch it two more days, or pay an "upgrade fee" and completely unlock it. It only worked in a special player that had to be plugged into your telephone line. When the format finally failed Circuit City, being the assholes that they were, simply locked everyone out of their DIVX discs even if they'd paid the upgrade fee on them.

It's the only format I know that self-destructs!

@justinbrandt8415

3 жыл бұрын

There was Flexplay. same deal, self-destructs after 48 hrs

So much marketing bullshit in this. I feel sorry for the employees who were forced to sell this crap.

10:00 ahh my God my side is hurting from laughing. Literally in tears laughing.

@qwerty6574

Жыл бұрын

I'm ded

I wonder if these sales guys went on to sell Flexplay DVDs

@kc1john

26 күн бұрын

It still blows my mind that after the epic failure of DIVX that bankrupted Circuit City, another company basically tried the same thing. Which also shockingly failed badly. Company execs are just idiots in suits.

2:37 This is what those who bought into Divx must have felt afterwards ... burned.

I worked at Best Buy when CC was pushing this. DIVX was such a joke that no one was even concerned about having a competitor.

DIVX DVD: One the Biggest Marketing FAILs In Retail history and one of the most perplexing, idiotic, and mindnumbingly obtuse proposals ever to be created. It’s not surprising that it crashed and burned. What’s surprising is that it got made. INVESTORS actually said yes to this. How and Why investors were stupid enough to green light such stupid shit is beyond me. *Facepalms*

@names_are_useless

Жыл бұрын

All they saw were dollar signs. Had the format become popular, much like monthly fee streaming services today, you have a customer base that is always needing to come back to BUY MORE. They can never watch The Shining whenever they want after only a single-time fee had DIVX taken off. The writing is on the wall: the Media Machine doesn't want you to own anything, they only want you to "rent access". Movies and Shows are going that way with streaming services, and as we're seeing Games are going more and more into the Cloud. Modern Games installed on a Hard Drive will become a thing of the past. This is how Media becomes lost: when it cannot be backed up, and I'm seeing the writing on the wall daily.

@Tornado1994

Жыл бұрын

@@names_are_useless Exactly.

OMG I found the same video at a thrift store across from circuit city! Sold it on ebay fro 14.00 smackeroos!

i laughed so hard when i listened to the 8-4 podcast and found this masterpiece at the end

I prefer DVDs and Blu-rays over streaming any day and time of the week!

@Astolfo2001

Жыл бұрын

Me too! :)

Me: "All right. Where can I find Dirty Harry on DIVX?" CC Employee: "Well, you can't." M: "What about Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory?" CCE: "Nope." M: "Not even Twister??" CCE: "Sorry. The Warner Bros. studio doesn't support DIVX." M: "Why didn't you tell me about this? Fuck this shit!"

i didn't know about DIVX until now and think this is ridiculous. during this time cable scramblers, pay-per-view, and 1-900 numbers were popular, so this was obviously the next step in home entertainment. but too bad they didn't see their downfall and that DVD's would evolve. just pointing out the obvious.

@chrisrhinehart45

3 жыл бұрын

900 numbers lol

@estew6764

3 жыл бұрын

90 numbers wtf🤣🤣🤣

@purefoldnz3070

Жыл бұрын

killed by the popularity of The Matrix.

A basic breakdown of how Divx works: In the middle of the night you will receive a phone call. If it is the second Wednesday of the month DO NOT pick up. If it is any other day of the month pick up the phone and a man with a raspy voice will tell you that gods of light and darkness are in balance-this means your subscription has been activated. If he says the god of darkness battles the god of light, please proceed to throw away all of your left socks. Now proceed to wait outside your house every night until you see a van parked across the street- DO NOT FORGET TO BRING A GEIGER COUNTER(this is very important to the safety of you and your family! If you see a red van parked outside and it is the first Thursday of the month and it raining, yell "I DESIRE ENTERTAINMENT" and the Divx should appear in your fridge vegetable drawer in 3-7 weeks. If the van is any other color, burn your house down and flee into the night. Simple!

I love these old videos, the terrible acting is the best .

@lorumipsum1129

7 жыл бұрын

Paul Hendrick I don't think thier trying to act.

If they would have been up front with people and said, "Sorry, due to piracy we have to do things this way now. Sorry for the inconvenience" I wonder if they would have come out better.

...and the next week, Circuit City declared bankruptcy, and closed all their stores.

Now it's a fails training video. I like how they never mention what the one-time fee for unlimited viewing is, even though they told you what the initial purchase price of the disc was, as well as the renewal price for another 48 hours. *S T A R V I N G L I T H U A N I A N N U N S* (and Knuckles)

@Bloggerspot-dw8qs

9 ай бұрын

That’s what I kept wondering too😆 What is this mysterious “one-time fee” that is probably like $30 lolol

You know...why not just buy a regular DVD? I only need to pay for it once.

So I have the movie in my room but I have to pay to watch it? Unbelievable. No wonder it went under.

@patsfan4life

5 жыл бұрын

Viewsk8 yeah it was just a very weird concept but kind of makes sense as a hybrid solution

UMD videos also used DVD technology for Digital Picture. That's The only Defunct format of Movies that i own .

@3DJapan

5 жыл бұрын

At least those will still play.

I had that RCA DVD/DivX player in the video. It cost me $400 and they threw in 5 DivX movies and a $30 credit to pick up Metallica's Cunning Stunts DVD. I only watched one of the DivX movies LOL. Most of the DivX versions were inferior like using Pan & Scan versions of the movies not widescreen and no special features.

@zorinlynx

3 жыл бұрын

I remember how absurdly expensive the DIVX players were; hell they were MORE expensive than regular DVD players. How did anyone think people would pay MORE to play a format that's so restricted? If they'd been smart, they would have sold them for less money than regular DVD players and that would have gotten them into more homes and gotten people curious to try the DIVX discs.

@chrisrhinehart45

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you guys got fucked pretty smoothly

@shootthemoon9549

3 жыл бұрын

did you say cunning stunts or stunning cunts???

Interestingly, that line about "impossible to believe divx could go under bc of all the studio support" is the same argument that gets made in support of Ultraviolet (which I use through Vudu and Fandango).

@Lazyguy22

6 ай бұрын

well wouldn't you know? lol

Can't believe I watched a training video for fun

@DevineInnovations

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. But I guess it's part of history now.

I heard about DivX once in the nineties and never thought of it again.

They could've had something that made sense because it did make sense right up until forcing the consumers to plugin their player to a phone line. Divx files can be burned and played from a CD which was alot cheaper than DVD both technologically and in terms of licensing. The compression made the files 1/5 of the size of a typical DVD file so they're easier to transfer and store. If they just sold them for $3 without all the other bloat, they would've actually avoided piracy and possibly killed DVD, instead, they made piracy easier because most consumer DVD players could play Divx and most PCs came with CD Burners. People ended up just burning their own Divx files to discs that didn't need to dial home.

@cosmonautdubs

2 жыл бұрын

Wow thanks for explaining it like that. So you could play a Divx disc in any CD-ROM drive and the movie would load?

@names_are_useless

Жыл бұрын

Seriously!? I was under the impression DIVX Discs were at least encrypted to avoid piracy ... but you're telling me the files on the disc weren't!? So DIVX wouldn't have stopped piracy at all even if it had become the new format AND inconvenienced the average viewer at the same time? FFS!

@barrynevio4440

Жыл бұрын

If your DVD player had a Divx logo on it, you just burn a Divx file on a regular ol' CD-R as a data disc and it would work. DVD burners were like $400 back around 2002 and a DVD-R was I want to say almost $4, so Divx on CD-R was the answer. I got my first DVD Burner around 2004 or 2005 for $200 and a spindle of 25 DVD-Rs for around $25 so I was finally able to make nice DVDs with menus, better video quality, and longer playtime. But for the few years before; Divx ruled... Also Xvid was the open source alternative to Divx and worked the same too.

@Hyxtryx

8 ай бұрын

That's DivX, which is not the same as the DIVX this video is about. 2 completely different things. Unfortunate naming scheme.

@barrynevio4440

8 ай бұрын

@@Hyxtryx as someone whom was sued by divx, I can assure you they're the same thing.

The salesman at 6:56 comes off as so disingenuous and phony. I wouldn’t buy anything from this dude.

even though i don't remember much, i kinda miss circuit City

7:47 Salesrep: "How does that sound?" Customer: "Well... so far..." (Gets Cuts off) Spokesperson: "That sounds great!"

A brilliant standard definition picture displayed on a CRT connected via composite! Just like SuperVHS. Couldn’t tell the difference!,

Wow! DIVX is going to be a huge hit and ensure Circuit City is going to be around forever!

I love these Trainning Videos

They really thought this might be the answer to piracy and film copying, yet you need to pay with each 48 hr viewing session (unless you upgrade the disc after the fact, I think.) I can't believe that they thought consumers would just buy into this in the early 2000s.

@daltonrandall4348

2 жыл бұрын

How was that any different than renting a DVD from a Blockbuster?

@FMecha

10 ай бұрын

​@@daltonrandall4348 Not having to return the disc or facing late fees *is* the selling point.

Take a shot every time they say “digital”

The entire concept just sounds awful. They want you to think it's good for you when it was designed only to stop piracy

Christ. No wonder CC went under. They overcommitted to things like this. This is no Monday morning quarterbacking, the video itself is pretty much defending the major flaws with the platform.

I see the little DIVX video logo at the bottom of old videos from 2008 sometimes...

@remilafleur540

6 жыл бұрын

Windows lover, bruh! DivX≠DIVX

@patsfan4life

5 жыл бұрын

I had a DVD player with DIVX and only now do I know what it means

So what happens to my library if the company goes out?????? Where is your GOD now!?

3:52 lmao "Air Bud" is one of the movies shown.

Thank goodness streaming came about. This sounds so unneeded!

Literally lasted only 373 days. Ha ha

You know what else has no returns or late fees? Netflix.

I was born 40 years ago and I never heard of this. Look at that fat old TV!

10:00-10:07 Yeah about that...