The UK Home Automation Archive

Archive Home
Group Home
Search Archive


Advanced Search

The UKHA-ARCHIVE IS CEASING OPERATIONS 31 DEC 2024

Latest message you have seen: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=5Bukha=5Fd=5D_SmartThings_=C2=A3149_starter_kit_is_back_i?= =?UTF-8?Q?n_stock?=


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Jail for seller of illegal Xbox chips



From: "Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>
> I had assumed Mark was refering to the DivX that was tried to provide
> short life time dvds (for rental), it failed in the US where it
> started, never made it over here.

Ahh, that makes more sense. I had forgotten about that format altogether!
what was it again, light degrading discs? I recall reading that the main
reason for that format's failure was the fact that people really don't get
(or don't like) this "buy the right to watch it" rather than
"buy it"
difference

> Divx (little x) is the movie compression format we use, it is
completely
unrelated.
> Of course I might be completely wrong ;)

Well, "DivX" is the current way of referring to the codec (have a
look at
www.divx.com or www.doom9.org ), the original v3 codec was
"DIVx", if I
recall. I seem to remember the format using "DivX" as well..

I.







Home | Main Index | Thread Index

Comments to the Webmaster are always welcomed, please use this contact form . Note that as this site is a mailing list archive, the Webmaster has no control over the contents of the messages. Comments about message content should be directed to the relevant mailing list.