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Stage 6 to Shut Down - Goodbye HQ Streaming
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| Chris Allen |
| quote: | I’m Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service. I’m writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, 2008. Upload functionality has already been turned off, and you’ll be able to view and download videos until Thursday.
I know this news will come as a shock and disappointment to many Stage6 users, and I’d like to take a few moments to explain the reasons behind our decision.
We created Stage6 with the mission of empowering content creators and viewers to discover a new kind of video experience. Stage6 began as an experiment, and we always knew there was a chance that it might not succeed.
In many ways, though, the service did succeed, beyond even our own initial expectations. Stage6 became very popular very quickly. We helped gain exposure for some talented filmmakers who brought great videos to the attention of an engaged community. We helped prove that it’s possible to distribute true high definition video on the Internet. And we helped broaden the Internet video experience by offering content that is compatible with DVD players, mobile devices and other products beyond the PC.
So why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is that the continued operation of Stage6 is a very expensive enterprise that requires an enormous amount of attention and resources that we are not in a position to continue to provide. There are a lot of other details involved, but at the end of the day it’s really as simple as that.
Now, why didn’t we think of that before we decided to create Stage6 in the first place, you may ask? That’s a good question. When we first created Stage6, there was a clear need for a service that would offer a true high quality video experience online because other video destinations on the Internet simply weren’t providing that to users. A gap existed, and Stage6 arrived to fill it.
As Stage6 grew quickly and dramatically (accompanied by an explosion of other sites delivering high quality video), it became clear that operating the service as a part of the larger DivX business no longer made sense. We couldn’t continue to run Stage6 and focus on our broader strategy to make it possible for anyone to enjoy high quality video on any device. So, in July of last year we announced that we were kicking off an effort to explore strategic alternatives for Stage6, which is a fancy way of saying we decided we would either have to sell it, spin it out into a private company or shut it down.
I won’t (and can’t, really) go into too much detail on those first two options other than to say that we tried really hard to find a way to keep Stage6 alive, either as its own private entity or by selling it to another company. Ultimately neither of those two scenarios was possible, and we made the hard decision to turn the lights off and cease operation of the service.
So that’s where we are today. After February 28, Stage6 will cease to exist as an online destination. But the larger DivX universe will continue to thrive. Every day new DivX Certified devices arrive on the market making it easy to move video beyond the PC. Products powered by DivX Connected, our new initiative that lets users stream video, photos, music and Internet services from the PC to the TV, are hitting retail outlets. We remain committed to empowering content creators to deliver high quality video to a wide audience, and we’ll continue to offer services that will make it easy to find videos online in the DivX format.
It’s been a wild ride, and none of it would have been possible without the support of our users. Thank you for making Stage6 everything that it was.
--Tom |
:( Booo, there goes loads of HQ video's, movies, TV shows, etc etc.
Too bad Youtube wouldn't adapt DivX quality into their format instead of low-quality flash video/audio.
Finally a good high quality site and it's being forced to shut down.
Source: Stage 6 |
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| Orko |
| I'm a big net geek, but stage who? |
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| Chris Allen |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
I'm a big net geek, but stage who? |
More info:
| quote: | | You may only be vaguely aware of DivX's Stage 6 video site (which probably explains why it wasn't successful) but it's going to be shut down entirely at the end of February. Stage 6 was DivX's YouTube-like video site meant to provide a bunch of streamable content for living room and mobile DivX players. The fact that it's being canned speaks to how successful the effort was. Most of you won't miss it, but we'll have a special place in our hearts for the handful of nudie clips we found on it that one time. |
Source: Gizmodo
If you ever used Joost, Surf the Channel, or the ill-fated TV-Links, you'll know of Stage 6 and the DivX online player. |
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| jchung52 |
| ahh thats gay.. didnt know bout this site... any recommendations for similar... at least i found space: above and beyond on here.. loved that show... too bad it only lasted a season haha |
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| zeKsg |
Man joox.net was one of the websites they would upload newly released movies, it was so nice, I would get to see movies that just came out in theaters in DIVX quality... and what about all those series...
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Man this is so wack... |
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| Import |
For those of you who use Joox.net its gonna be down for awhile too as it simply categorized the stage 6 videos. However they stated they will be looking for a new Divx video host, so watch them for stage6's inevitable replacement.
edit: doh aparently i posted a few seconds to late |
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| zeKsg |
Dude man the piracy of that level is retarded tho, movies in such high quality and i mean THOSE MOVIES JUST CAME OUT in theatres, i mean just like a week later u get a version on joox.
So awesome, so few ppl know of it thats why it was good, wait till more ppl find out about this piracy and it will be stopped in some way 2. |
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| El K Dee |
fack...there are other sites like quicksilverscreen and stuff that i would use but i think the files were uploaded to stage6 too (not sure how the upload funtions)....bummer..
back to torrents |
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| Chris Allen |
Well, clearly the quality is based on the upload quality as well.
That seems to be downloaded from Youtube or some other FLV type of medium and re-uploaded to Stage 6.
Try something like THIS for more of a feel ;) |
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| electro88 |
| F!!!!, thank god I still have a membership at Crunchyroll for my TVB Series :haha: |
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