If the situation was not bad enough for the music industry, the movie world is about to get renewed threat to its distribution model with the release of DivX;-) version 5.
DivX is not the defunct copy protection system but an optimized version of Microsoft’s MPEG4 format. The current version of Divx achieves significant compression advantages over MPEG (the main format used to burn VCDs) allowing users to download movies of between 500 and 750 mb that are often above VHS quality. This has meant that Divx has become a key format for distributing pirate films still in the cinema (call ‘cam’ recordings) through peer-to-peer networks such as Gnutella and Fasttrack.
Version 5 is still under wraps until Saturday March 3rd 2002… but Divx.com’s community boards are hinting at some major advances in speed, compression, compatibility and quality.
If Divx 5 can truly realize almost DVD quality films that fit onto one CD-R can we expect the movie industry to get aggressive or just poison networks with fake content? Will manufactures support this format to the same extent VCD is? Visit Divx.com for the inside view or read what a UK newspaper said in January 2001: Project Mayo will set us free
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