Hacked video technology provides look at MP3-like films

Tuesday, March 28, 2000

Hacked video technology provides look at MP3-like films

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"..A new video technology is floating through the computer underground that holds the promise of doing for movies what MP3 has done for digital music.

Dubbed "DivX"--no relation to the defunct digital video disk (DVD) player--the technology allows video to be highly compressed while retaining a high-quality picture. Feature-length Hollywood movies could be downloaded in just a few hours with a broadband connection and stored on a single CD.."