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To: Shelly Wolfsdorf who wrote (33682)	6/8/1998 2:45:00 PM
From: JPM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

This is the only benefit of Divx... since you own the disks, you don't have to worry about renting a scratched one... which could be a big problem... of course, if you consider that they cost 50c to make, DVD rental places would probably just replace the scratched ones anyway. jp

To: Shelly Wolfsdorf who wrote (33682)	6/8/1998 3:50:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

I think for Divx to truly succeed, it will need to have a privacy feature, perhaps available for a fee similar to the cost of an Open DVD title. For a fee it should be convertible to unlimited play. Here's the kicker: this unlimited play should be accessible without the Divx player being hooked up to a phone line or other info port. I don't know if Divx Silver (the current unlimited play upgrade) will allow this. If the phone line is still needed, then all this talk about Divx being an "enhancement" is cynical malarkey. It becomes a whole 'nother format. If I can't own Star Wars or even [porn title] in some format that allows me to watch it as often as I like without my machine telling someone else about it, I don't like it.