Garret H

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

Well, you should be happy. DivX 2008 projected revenues are down partly due to increased R&D spending on what will hopefully amount to new and innovative ways to spread and view content. Their stock took a massive hit and this should kill any ideas about short term profits. Stage6 was likely getting in the way of signing studio deals and had a model that could not scale due to bandwidth costs of HD streaming. I didn't use stage6 much, but I hope that they are able to reincarnate it someday as something better.

I think the truth here is much more benign than whatever has been thrown around on various blogs or whatever. DivX didn't have the resources to make this dream a reality. stage6 died a teenager, but we'll see it in another form someday, maybe from DivX, maybe from somebody else.. In the meantime, Netflix and Amazon have their respective offerings.