Comments on: Next-Gen disk sales outpacing original DVDs from the ’90s http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/30/next-gen-disk-sales-outpacing-original-dvds-from-the-90s/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:18:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: bbock http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/30/next-gen-disk-sales-outpacing-original-dvds-from-the-90s/#comment-581446 bbock Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:36:36 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/30/next-gen-disk-sales-outpacing-original-dvds-from-the-90s/#comment-581446 You might have forgotten one of the reasons DVD adoption started slow. DIVX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX Not the codec we know and love, but the proprietary version of DVD created by Circuit City and some entertainment lawyers. Their format was essentially the same but it had DRM that required a DVD player to be hooked to the phone so it could unlock it for a period of time. Paramount, Fox and Dreamworks were exclusive to DIVX. It confused the market and slowed the adoption of DVD, despite the fact that the DIVX players could play plain DVDs. I (and many others) held off from buying DVD until DIVX was dead. You might have forgotten one of the reasons DVD adoption started slow. DIVX.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

Not the codec we know and love, but the proprietary version of DVD created by Circuit City and some entertainment lawyers. Their format was essentially the same but it had DRM that required a DVD player to be hooked to the phone so it could unlock it for a period of time. Paramount, Fox and Dreamworks were exclusive to DIVX. It confused the market and slowed the adoption of DVD, despite the fact that the DIVX players could play plain DVDs. I (and many others) held off from buying DVD until DIVX was dead.

]]> By: pointless http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/30/next-gen-disk-sales-outpacing-original-dvds-from-the-90s/#comment-581154 pointless Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:43:36 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/30/next-gen-disk-sales-outpacing-original-dvds-from-the-90s/#comment-581154 Someone must have forgot to send me the memo about HD DVD having lost, because I (and well over a million other HD DVD player owners) are still buying and pre-ordering new HD releases. Someone must have forgot to send me the memo about HD DVD having lost, because I (and well over a million other HD DVD player owners) are still buying and pre-ordering new HD releases.

]]> By: mathew http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/30/next-gen-disk-sales-outpacing-original-dvds-from-the-90s/#comment-581084 mathew Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:33:31 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/30/next-gen-disk-sales-outpacing-original-dvds-from-the-90s/#comment-581084 "And now that the format war is all but over (sorry, HD-DVD!), isn’t it about time you go out and get a nice HD player for your HD home theater set-up?" Not until I can get a reasonably priced multi-region Blu-ray player. “And now that the format war is all but over (sorry, HD-DVD!), isn’t it about time you go out and get a nice HD player for your HD home theater set-up?”

Not until I can get a reasonably priced multi-region Blu-ray player.

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