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   Tried and failed

   

   Timmmmay!, Sep 11th, 2002 @ 6:31am

   
   

   Anyone remember DivX -- not the AVI competitor -- the $4 DVD's that only played in a special player and expired 24 hours after you started them. No one wanted it (and I do mean **no one**) and it went down the crapper. If I didn't want it then, why would I want it now?

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   Re: Tried and failed

   

   Not entirely bad, Sep 11th, 2002 @ 7:00am

   
   

   One feature of the Divx system was that the window in which you had to watch the movie did not start when you got the disc from the store but rather when you first started to watch it. Thus you could get a bunch of discs at once and watch them over a week or two and not need to match repeated trips to the video store.
   
   Now things like Netflixx offer some of this ability, but I don't thing a properly done Divx like system is purely evil.
   
   

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