Comments on: Penny-Arcade’s Div reminds us that iTunes movie rentals is a lot like DIVX

By: terra

terra — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:17:08 +0000

uh…. xbox 360 much? same thing.

By: petey

petey — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:53:02 +0000

i can see that lazy people will love apple tv. but more significantly, there will be few discs in the landfill than with divx.

By: Trae Dorn

Trae Dorn — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:52:58 +0000

Yeah - with DIVX you had to get up and go to a store. With iTunes, you have the entire impulse buy phenomena going on.

By: Endless Mike

Endless Mike — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:29:22 +0000

Major difference: you don’t have to leave your home to get a movie from iTunes. This, in and of itself, makes it vastly superior to DIVX.

By: yoshi

yoshi — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:57:42 +0000

I don’t think the comparison is apt. There are flaws in the Apple model (imho, minor) but comparing it to DIVX? Give me a break. Circuit City’s DIVX product was so fraught with flaws, costs, privacy, and user experience issues that it had no chance.