DivX shutting down Stage6

by Darren Murph, posted Feb 25th 2008 at 3:18PM

In a somewhat sudden announcement, DivX has decided to close the door on its Stage6 service. Reportedly, upload functionality has already been halted, but videos will still be available for viewing / downloading until February 28th. According to a DivX employee, the service simply became too unwieldy (and expensive) to manage, and while it did toss out the option of selling the service to someone else, things evidently didn't pan out. Adios, Stage6 -- 'twas a fun ride.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Industry, Media streamers, Other formats, Others

Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, dead, divx, kill, killed, rip, shut down, ShutDown, stage6

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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KEROLiUKAS @ Feb 25th 2008 3:47PM

Sux..I'm not liking this.

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cseabrooks @ Feb 25th 2008 3:48PM

I bet this had everything to do with bootleg movies showing up on the site. In the next couple of weeks or months, we'll see some studio investing in DivX.

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Shakir Razak @ Feb 25th 2008 4:30PM

Hi,

There are and will continue to be other solutions, because youtube is the warehouse not the boutique, and will never care about specific users or their needs, just the mass, lowest-common denominator.

For example, www.SUMO.TV that operate with a different model to youtube and has local operations from Brazil, israel, India to China.

However, sometimes, companies/people just don�t want to fight on.

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

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Patrick @ Feb 25th 2008 5:08PM

I know! I was so sad, just found out from their site. I use Stage6 all the time. Definitely "copyright infringement" was going on, but it wasn't a "pirate's central" either. There was lots of old foreign stuff, lots of shows made for free internet distribution, videogame screen grabs, etc. So much HD, 1080p stuff too.
I saw people on their forums saying "Stage6 Alternative" *blah blah*, but only linked to sites with crappy layouts and low quality flash video, basically youtube with less selection.
If anyone knows of something truly similar to Stage6, PLEASE post. :)

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Jherez @ Feb 25th 2008 8:19PM

The closest site i know of to Stage6 is Veoh

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Rafer @ Feb 25th 2008 8:20PM

Veoh still uses flash right?

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Richard @ Feb 26th 2008 7:29AM

dailymotion.com has hd videos now so that would get closest to stage6, but i think its flash video so it won't be as fast as stage6

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Kurt B @ Feb 25th 2008 5:32PM

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I love Stage6! Excellent quality, alot of diversity and amazing load times. Perhaps the service was too good.

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hexhunter @ Feb 25th 2008 7:06PM

Typical, I just started using it, and now its shutting down.

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zoran @ Feb 25th 2008 7:46PM

I know. I love it. The videos are awesome and all easy to find. Whenever I start to like something, it goes out. And it was free. I was willing to pay to get all the selection of hd music videos. Does anyone know of simmilar site with higher quality music videos, for free of, course?

Thanks

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