Comments on: Paramount Staying Aggressive with HD DVD http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/paramount_staying_aggressive_with_hd_dvd/ The best and latest movie news, reviews, features and editorials - updated daily Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:27:32 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kettch http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/paramount_staying_aggressive_with_hd_dvd/#comment-1117 kettch Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:14:29 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8261#comment-1117 Brad, I think you might be confusing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX" target="_blank">DIVX</a>, the pay-per-view DVD system, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX" target="_blank">DivX</a>, the MPEG-4 derived video codec. Before hard drive space became really cheap, I had most of my DVD collection encoded as high quality DivX files for use on my Media Center PC. Now I've got terabytes of DVD's ripped directly to disk. I never have to get off the couch. :) For HD movies, I'm going to have to wait until the next bump in disk capacity/value. Brad, I think you might be confusing DIVX, the pay-per-view DVD system, with DivX, the MPEG-4 derived video codec.

Before hard drive space became really cheap, I had most of my DVD collection encoded as high quality DivX files for use on my Media Center PC. Now I've got terabytes of DVD's ripped directly to disk. I never have to get off the couch. :) For HD movies, I'm going to have to wait until the next bump in disk capacity/value.

]]> By: bradbrevet http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/paramount_staying_aggressive_with_hd_dvd/#comment-1116 bradbrevet Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:04:06 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8261#comment-1116 Was DIVX ever a serious option? Honestly, I didn't know it was anything more than a way for people to bootleg DVDs. Was DIVX ever a serious option? Honestly, I didn't know it was anything more than a way for people to bootleg DVDs.

]]> By: davidfrank http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/paramount_staying_aggressive_with_hd_dvd/#comment-1115 davidfrank Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:02:42 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=8261#comment-1115 Didn't Paramount also aggressively support Divx in the DVD vs Divx format war? I think it might be best to always go with the opposite of what Paramount backs. Didn't Paramount also aggressively support Divx in the DVD vs Divx format war? I think it might be best to always go with the opposite of what Paramount backs.

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