...wow, DivX the disc format. That takes me back. I remember reading an article in PC Mag about that when it was proposed, and nobody thought it would fly EVEN THEN.
As I recall, the guy that hacked the MS MPEGV3 codec and recoded it as DivX 3.11 called it DivX as a none-too-subtle mocking of the failed disc format.
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...wow, DivX the disc format. That takes me back. I remember reading an article in PC Mag about that when it was proposed, and nobody thought it would fly EVEN THEN.
As I recall, the guy that hacked the MS MPEGV3 codec and recoded it as DivX 3.11 called it DivX as a none-too-subtle mocking of the failed disc format.