I remember a salesmen at Circuit City telling me that the DVD player I just bought for $200 was gonna be obsolete because of DIVX. I really enjoyed the opportunity that I had asking the same salesmen, "What happened to DIVX???" a year or so later. lol
Erik Molnar I had told a circuit city in 2007 that hd dvd would be out of business in 1 year because of a wider range of titles and the simple fact that consumers will adapt to blu ray 10 times faster because of ps3 owners who could view on their machines .see twister was first DVD created and it was the last hd dvd created
@@danielsantana540 I worked in Electronics at Target in 2007/08. And alllll their HD DVDs were on a clearance endcap. And speaking of obsolete electronics, every now and again, I’d have to get the keys to one of the display case, unlock it, and walk a Zune up to one of the two registers in Electronics to be rung up - after wiping the dust off it, of course. Even when it was new, no one was buying them. Ah, when Microsoft tried to emulate the iPod…
@@jasoncinema the late 2000 s were 2004-2009 was the most memorable times of the 2000 s. I got my first HD TV in July 2007 a Westinghouse 32 lcd 720 p. And still have it TODAY. I actually didn't adapt to blu ray format until i got a PS3
@@danielsantana540 I remember going into a Circuit City when I was in New York and saw a DIVX player and thought to myself it's not going to take off. Just the same as when I worked in a Electronics Store pre-2010 and 3DTV was the hype and I was an honest salesperson and said to a customer that 3DTV is not going to take off not knowing my boss was behind me and tried to reaffirm to the would be customers it would. It's a shame I was right! Luckily they didn't fall for the hype!
@@K24Z3CU2 yeah I mean if you know your stuff and give them your unbiased knowledge on electronics etc it's all good well around July 14 2008 new york times Square I saw the dark knight . I had last previously visited new york in January 2008 and was in Madison Square garden for wwe royal rumble 2008..I didn't upgrade to a 4k TV until 9 17 2021 a 42 inch .
"Remember the disposable DVD? Circuit City's attempt at starting its own pay-per-view movie service entailed proprietary set-top players and disposable DiVX movie discs that expired 48 hours after you started watching them. The player required a phone line so it could check whether you had permission to watch. But as it turned out, consumers preferred their DVDs without strings, and Circuit City ended up dropping $114 million on its little experiment." - Dan Tynan, PC World, May 26, 2006.
I thought the same of DirecTV, since you had to pay $700 for the equipment and THEN pay a monthly fee to unlock any channels, even those that showed commercials, but that took off pretty big so I wasn't sure if this would end up failing or not.
The only players that made it out were from RCA (and their "higher-end" division Proscan), Zenith and Panasonic. Pioneer and Harmon-Kardon were also said to have had players in development, but they never came out. (I was a bit surprised Pioneer would stoop that low, having just bought their laserdisc/DVD combo machine as my first DVD player.)
People were already concerned about the massive number of disposable AOL discs that were free at every store and getting mailed out like junk mail. Making more disposable discs was not a good idea at all. How many people just threw away DIVXX discs they no longer planned to rent and didn't want to buy? Plus those discs are now useless.
"Silver" discs only worked with players on your account- if someone else played them, they got charged the $3.25 rental fee for 2 days. This is also why I will never "buy" a movie on Vudu or any other streaming service, since those can only be accessed on devices registered to your account, and of course can be taken off-line at any time for any reason.
I actually bought a divx player because it was on sale and cheaper than regular dvd players. through an offer I got some divx movies free or really cheap. The only reason I did it was because it could also play regular dvds. When Divx went under I got a $100 rebate check in the mail.
Its like a glimpse into that universe where people have flying cars...if only DIVX didn't die - it even had one less syllable than DVD. (note how blu-ray easily triumphed over HD-DVD's five syllables!!)
I wasn't threatened in being fired but a manager argued with me that it was going to be successful. When we were dumping divix discs in the garbage he had nothing to say.
I don't remember too much about the product other then an intense hate for it. I kinda liked CC but they had an attitude about them. Not too sad to see them go. Won't be too sad to see BB go as well. Looking for a power cord for a computer and BB sold them for $13. Radio Shack sold them for $10. Bye bye Best Buy!
DIVX (the digital file format/software) has nothing to do with DIVX (the disc format). Apparently, the software and file format were named after this disc format as a joke, but they're not related.
I remember this nonsense. Anything that starts anticipating a lot of valid questions that they will have to answer is doomed to fail. Now, we have Kodi/OSMC and don’t have to pay shit for anything. …and VPN’s to hide behind that we aren’t paying shit.
You can't do that. The only thing they'll recognize is a standard DVD file which is five minutes of a still screen saying "You have attempted to play a Divx disc in a DVD player without the Divx Feature. The Divx Feature is required to play this disc. For more information call 1-800-SAY-DIVX."
id imagine that in the height of 'rentals' this would have worked. Mainly because it is cheap to buy a disc and have no charges, course at $15 to make it silver is certainly cheaper than the $20+ you'd have found on retail DVD's. Perhaps if there was 'some way' to unlock the disc without then ever needing the phone line after that then it could well be ok. The UK where I am based never had such a system, but we did have PPV operated in a similar way via satellite, was quite popular. still it lives on in the history.
Discs sold for $4.49 which was a bit much for a rental at the time, though nowadays digital rentals average about that much. The main thing people hated about this was that it was a disc you owned but someone else controlled when you could watch it.
wow they made divx movie on disc i just thought it was a video codec that you could use to convert videos too never had known they released them on disc
so, its basically the same as netflix but worse because you pay about 11 dollars per month (mexico) for watch a lot of movies, almost 6 days for divx movie idk why people still laugth about netflix is the same dumb idea
I got about 10 of these discs and I paid for unlimited viewing so why the hell cant I watch them today? They said unlimited well they were wrong they owe me some money.
I bought an RCA one and it quit working within 2 years. Luckily I had an extended warranty so Circuit City gave me credit to get a new DVD player. The mistake I made was getting the overrated sony as opposed to samsung or panasonic.
The Gates of Hell are nearly opened at the 6:06 mark when the girl pulls back the cover of that James Bond divx disc. Thank God, Jesus and the New Orleans Saints they didn’t put that scene at the 7:06 mark, which would have been six minutes and 66 seconds!
Ha ha- what'd he say? I was so happy when Circuit City went out of business- bad economy or not, they were just a bad business altogether that didn't deserve anyone's patronage. And Best Buy- you're next! (Sad they're on the way out even without any major competitors.)
@@treysimmons7707 Until they took the "Physical Media" section off the shelves this year (2024) and it's getting worse! Thanks to Streaming and their lousy business practices.
its like tvo or the hd dvd to the blue ray dvd today only sucked way worse holy shit i can not understand how i never knew about this oh wait nevermind i know
Thank Arceus that this vile excuse of a media format never caught on and died within a year! The whole 'always connected online to watch your movies stored on discs' bs just goes against the reason why people collect physical media to begin with!
I have a few DIVX movies in my collection but all completely unwatchable. Titles: Happy Gilmore Armageddon (movie sucks. Lol) Tomorrow Never Dies The Thin Red Line Star Trek: First Contact Amistad
The divX video codec was named as a jab at the DIVX format shown here, since it basically undid all the tying-down that this tried to do.
eyeh8nbc
Interesting!
I remember a salesmen at Circuit City telling me that the DVD player I just bought for $200 was gonna be obsolete because of DIVX. I really enjoyed the opportunity that I had asking the same salesmen, "What happened to DIVX???" a year or so later. lol
Erik Molnar I had told a circuit city in 2007 that hd dvd would be out of business in 1 year because of a wider range of titles and the simple fact that consumers will adapt to blu ray 10 times faster because of ps3 owners who could view on their machines .see twister was first DVD created and it was the last hd dvd created
@@danielsantana540 I worked in Electronics at Target in 2007/08. And alllll their HD DVDs were on a clearance endcap.
And speaking of obsolete electronics, every now and again, I’d have to get the keys to one of the display case, unlock it, and walk a Zune up to one of the two registers in Electronics to be rung up - after wiping the dust off it, of course. Even when it was new, no one was buying them. Ah, when Microsoft tried to emulate the iPod…
@@jasoncinema the late 2000 s were 2004-2009 was the most memorable times of the 2000 s. I got my first HD TV in July 2007 a Westinghouse 32 lcd 720 p. And still have it TODAY. I actually didn't adapt to blu ray format until i got a PS3
@@danielsantana540 I remember going into a Circuit City when I was in New York and saw a DIVX player and thought to myself it's not going to take off. Just the same as when I worked in a Electronics Store pre-2010 and 3DTV was the hype and I was an honest salesperson and said to a customer that 3DTV is not going to take off not knowing my boss was behind me and tried to reaffirm to the would be customers it would. It's a shame I was right! Luckily they didn't fall for the hype!
@@K24Z3CU2 yeah I mean if you know your stuff and give them your unbiased knowledge on electronics etc it's all good well around July 14 2008 new york times Square I saw the dark knight . I had last previously visited new york in January 2008 and was in Madison Square garden for wwe royal rumble 2008..I didn't upgrade to a 4k TV until 9 17 2021 a 42 inch .
Early form of DRM.
"Remember the disposable DVD? Circuit City's attempt at starting its own pay-per-view movie service entailed proprietary set-top players and disposable DiVX movie discs that expired 48 hours after you started watching them. The player required a phone line so it could check whether you had permission to watch. But as it turned out, consumers preferred their DVDs without strings, and Circuit City ended up dropping $114 million on its little experiment." - Dan Tynan, PC World, May 26, 2006.
Hate owning your movies outright? Well why not buy the discs and rent it FROM YOURSELF?
The concept, when stated outright, is so preposterous I wonder how they ever thought it would take off.
I thought the same of DirecTV, since you had to pay $700 for the equipment and THEN pay a monthly fee to unlock any channels, even those that showed commercials, but that took off pretty big so I wasn't sure if this would end up failing or not.
Yes...
Auto generated subtitles at 5:35: “it’s time for defects”
The only players that made it out were from RCA (and their "higher-end" division Proscan), Zenith and Panasonic. Pioneer and Harmon-Kardon were also said to have had players in development, but they never came out. (I was a bit surprised Pioneer would stoop that low, having just bought their laserdisc/DVD combo machine as my first DVD player.)
Stores actually had a cardboard "Recycle" box you could put discs in. Wish I'd been able to snag one after the format died.
I remember seeing DIVX movies in Circuit City. DIVX discs is a two day period plus a 3.25 charge if want to keep it and DVD discs is unlimited.
People were already concerned about the massive number of disposable AOL discs that were free at every store and getting mailed out like junk mail. Making more disposable discs was not a good idea at all. How many people just threw away DIVXX discs they no longer planned to rent and didn't want to buy? Plus those discs are now useless.
What downed it was that an credit card and an landline phone attached to the player was needed. Many movies were not released on it.
"Silver" discs only worked with players on your account- if someone else played them, they got charged the $3.25 rental fee for 2 days. This is also why I will never "buy" a movie on Vudu or any other streaming service, since those can only be accessed on devices registered to your account, and of course can be taken off-line at any time for any reason.
Vudu pretty much sucks. Too much buffering, so I closed my Vudu account
I actually bought a divx player because it was on sale and cheaper than regular dvd players. through an offer I got some divx movies free or really cheap. The only reason I did it was because it could also play regular dvds. When Divx went under I got a $100 rebate check in the mail.
Who would have known that the chain itself disappeared ten years after this format? KARMA ALERT!
Its like a glimpse into that universe where people have flying cars...if only DIVX didn't die - it even had one less syllable than DVD. (note how blu-ray easily triumphed over HD-DVD's five syllables!!)
I heard everyone who worked there was threatened with being fired if they said anything negative about DIVX.
I wasn't threatened in being fired but a manager argued with me that it was going to be successful. When we were dumping divix discs in the garbage he had nothing to say.
At 3:04, yep, I really wanted to keep permanent copies of Kindergarten Cop, George of the Jungle, and Air Bud.
#bringbackdvds
#supportphysicalmedia
A fine example of video technology that wasn't up to par.
When the format went away, so did the "Recycle" box.
CC forced the manufacturers to build DIVX players if they wanted their products sold at CC
This guy took the remote to the shitter with him. This guy just did that.
ahh the missing codec solution brings back memories
Alas, he was wrong, and DVDs continued to sell greater than DIVX.
I don't remember too much about the product other then an intense hate for it. I kinda liked CC but they had an attitude about them. Not too sad to see them go. Won't be too sad to see BB go as well. Looking for a power cord for a computer and BB sold them for $13. Radio Shack sold them for $10. Bye bye Best Buy!
I like/hate how they completely ignore that LD exists in many of these promo videos.
A long shot, but does anyone know who the cast of this was? Wondering if the kids were ever in anything else?
Gotta love the amazingly stoned family at the beginning.
Remember when Neil Young made a mp3 player? Hows that working out? 😅
DAPs are still going strong though in audiophile circles
I'm familiar with the divx software and used it years ago. I was never aware they had this.
DIVX (the digital file format/software) has nothing to do with DIVX (the disc format). Apparently, the software and file format were named after this disc format as a joke, but they're not related.
What was the name of the sample at the beginning of the video, wasn't it "Rod Stewart maggie"? thank you
Keep in mind, at the time DVD players and DVDs were expensive as fuck! (Still a bad idea though)
Netflix Disney +. Amazon
I remember this nonsense. Anything that starts anticipating a lot of valid questions that they will have to answer is doomed to fail. Now, we have Kodi/OSMC and don’t have to pay shit for anything. …and VPN’s to hide behind that we aren’t paying shit.
Don’t worry when AI takes over no one will have to pay you either
I wonder how many people just ripped the discs on PC
You can't do that. The only thing they'll recognize is a standard DVD file which is five minutes of a still screen saying "You have attempted to play a Divx disc in a DVD player without the Divx Feature. The Divx Feature is required to play this disc. For more information call 1-800-SAY-DIVX."
@@TheMediaHoarder As I remember DIVX were some of the first movies to be pirated.
@@purefoldnz3070you might be confusing it with divx the video codec which was named that as a protest or joke on the failed format.
I'm sold! How do I buy one?
Kyle Smith they don't make them anymore, and Circuit City went out of business
Once my own company is founded, we could bring it back someday
id imagine that in the height of 'rentals' this would have worked. Mainly because it is cheap to buy a disc and have no charges, course at $15 to make it silver is certainly cheaper than the $20+ you'd have found on retail DVD's. Perhaps if there was 'some way' to unlock the disc without then ever needing the phone line after that then it could well be ok. The UK where I am based never had such a system, but we did have PPV operated in a similar way via satellite, was quite popular. still it lives on in the history.
Discs sold for $4.49 which was a bit much for a rental at the time, though nowadays digital rentals average about that much. The main thing people hated about this was that it was a disc you owned but someone else controlled when you could watch it.
The codec was based on avi I think if I remember correctly. Popular with pirates back in the hay day.
That’s a different DivX
I have the first 2 of those on laserdisc, still haven't seen Air Bud :)
I'm sold on this thing!
...Two decades late.
ericbazinga ah. my VCR can do the same thing, and It can record.
1:24 I thought Dad would get the remote! The rest weren't even close!
wow they made divx movie on disc i just thought it was a video codec that you could use to convert videos too never had known they released them on disc
This has nothing to do with the codec DivX.
I wonder if the Circuit City salesman shown here cried himself to sleep knowing he was selling a turd.
it's so revolutionary, but why it failed? it is extreamly sophisticated!
I see Tomorrow Never Dies on DIVX
so, its basically the same as netflix but worse because you pay about 11 dollars per month (mexico) for watch a lot of movies, almost 6 days for divx movie idk why people still laugth about netflix is the same dumb idea
It's different from that, I believe it's almost a complete coincidence that they are named the same thing.
As OCPcommunications described DIVX, it's The most spectacular failure ever made, and for good reason.
I got about 10 of these discs and I paid for unlimited viewing so why the hell cant I watch them today? They said unlimited well they were wrong they owe me some money.
@NGHD - Roblox But i paid for unlimited. There should be a bypass.
I own that exact same DVD/Divx player in this promo, the Proscan PS8680Z. And it's still going strong!
I bought an RCA one and it quit working within 2 years. Luckily I had an extended warranty so Circuit City gave me credit to get a new DVD player. The mistake I made was getting the overrated sony as opposed to samsung or panasonic.
Divx man: Sound good?
Me: Actually no...
The Gates of Hell are nearly opened at the 6:06 mark when the girl pulls back the cover of that James Bond divx disc. Thank God, Jesus and the New Orleans Saints they didn’t put that scene at the 7:06 mark, which would have been six minutes and 66 seconds!
Who came here after the new Chadtronic video?
ericbazinga I did!...lol
ericbazinga
Not me!
A company called dumb Ass INC.
Ha ha- what'd he say? I was so happy when Circuit City went out of business- bad economy or not, they were just a bad business altogether that didn't deserve anyone's patronage. And Best Buy- you're next! (Sad they're on the way out even without any major competitors.)
eyeh8nbc exactly
best buy is still doing well,10 years later.
@@treysimmons7707 Until they took the "Physical Media" section off the shelves this year (2024) and it's getting worse! Thanks to Streaming and their lousy business practices.
I'm sorry but DIVX was doomed from the start.
lol Blues Brothers 2000
04:40 its digital versatile disc BTW...
+Lime Green It was Digital Video Disc back in 1998. They changed it later.
Now we have Netflix with no time limit
its like tvo or the hd dvd to the blue ray dvd today only sucked way worse holy shit i can not understand how i never knew about this oh wait nevermind i know
id rather buy the fucking dvd what a stupid fucking idea hahahha no wounder y there is no more circuit city.
Divx killed VHS god damn it
Thank Arceus that this vile excuse of a media format never caught on and died within a year! The whole 'always connected online to watch your movies stored on discs' bs just goes against the reason why people collect physical media to begin with!
I have a few DIVX movies in my collection but all completely unwatchable.
Titles:
Happy Gilmore
Armageddon (movie sucks. Lol)
Tomorrow Never Dies
The Thin Red Line
Star Trek: First Contact
Amistad
This is a very stupid idea
Shid
I see what they were trying to do with this, but no. Just no.
so cringy man
it was a good idea