You may only be vaguely aware of DivX’s Stage 6 video site (which probably explains why it wasn’t successful) but it’s going to be shut down entirely at the end of February. Stage 6 was DivX’s YouTube-like video site meant to provide a bunch of streamable content for living room and mobile DivX players. The fact that it’s being canned speaks to how successful the effort was. Most of you won’t miss it, but we’ll have a special place in our hearts for the handful of nudie clips we found on it that one time. [Stage 6]
Update: A reader points out that DivX was saying Stage 6 is successful, but consumed too much of their attention and resources, so the only options they had were to spin it off, sell it, or shut it down. We’re not one to argue about varying levels of being “successful”, but if it really were as “successful” in terms of being “profitable”, we’re not sure why DivX couldn’t hire some more employees to man the site. Having a dedicated site to provide content in the correct format would have been a good asset to have as the DivX “platform” is growing.
