A couple years ago...

[rlassan]

A couple years ago Circuit City introduced a player and disc's called DIVX. Is this the same DIVX format mentioned in the forums? I'm sure it is NOT the same format. I legally bought several movies in this DIVX format that are now inoperable. Does anybody have experience with converting these disc's to DVD-R?

Thanks,
Rick

[tonyp12]

NO IT IS NOT THE SAME, CCITY was about pay per view DVD.

Todays DIVX is about MPEG4 video compression.

www.divx.com

Your DIVX disc are pretty much useless.

And as you only paid to watch them one time, you got what you paid for.
I take it you did watch them before the divx server whent down.

[musher70]

oh yaeh, i remember those things,gave youa dvd like
product in those little jewel cases, wonder what happened
to all those players nobody bought,tried to run DVD into
the ground, bankrupted zenith, a suppporter/creator,
circuitcity almost bankrupt now,hope they just go away
damn bastards...

[rlassan]

Yes, you do get what you pay for! Just like all technology! Some products last, some flop! The player still plays DVD, just won't play the DIVX disc's. Yes, I did watch the movies before they went belly-up. Hell, I even got a $100 rebate from Circuit City.

Rick

[arealgijoe]

If I remember correctly, you also paid aobut 100 more for the divix capable DVD player. so in that respect you might just be even.

Maybe someone ahs a program to extract the content from a divix disk so you can burn a dvd-r????

8) :P

gobble, gobble..