NewTeeVee has a post that Stage 6, DivX’s online video sharing website, has been spun off due to “a desire to decrease operating expenses, as Stage6 requires a lot of capital, especially as it gets more popular” according to the company. DivX quality has always been good and when compared to full DVDs, it’s also lightweight. But as an online video sharing format it doesn’t appear to have what I’ll call scalable high quality.
People talk a lot about making video on the web better but because the rate at which that video is being consumed is so high, you also have to think of costs. As a result, there is a balance of quality and size that we’ve always dealt with, but seems to be more important now that video is popular. That seems to be one of the big reasons behind Flash’s success: it was easy, had good enough quality and was cheap to stream/download.
[tags]Stage6, Divx, Rich Media, Flash Video[/tags]
GigaOm also has a side-by-side of YouTube and Stage6 with the “Dancing” video. I love that clip.
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