Garret H

Is the Breakdown of Stage6 the Beginning of DivX's End?

I kind of agree. Although as a public company, DivX has to be loyal to their investors, so this is is somewhat of a pragmatic compromise.

In regards to stage6, to It would have been infinitely smarter to just totally revamp the site, remove 99% of all the videos, remove upload capability, and just stream a few special independent movie series, commercials, promos, etc.. Bandwidth costs are cut by 95% or something and it becomes a negligible expense.

That way they could keep their yahoo toolbar downloads, add marketing value, and even maintain some forums. Maybe they'll end up doing this. They are certainly going to keep the domain name as a property (or sell it) although I don't know if they still kept the people around who maintain the site.

Unlimited upload limits is just not going to fly. It would never have worked. Stage6 has been obsoleted and eclipsed by a multitude of other video sharing sites and really can exist only as a marketing campaign, which is 1/2 the purpose of the original, albeit half-baked idea.

But, back to shareholder value, this is probably what they have to focus on now due to their stock being in trouble, so I can't really blame them for the stock buyback, especially because I am a shareholder.