Word: dvds
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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...view cousin, called DVX. But don't get too attached yet. "Some of the concepts aren't bad," Kevin Hause, a senior analyst at market researcher IDC, says with faint praise. "In the end, the best thing about it may be that the player will still play DVDs after DVX dies...
...like being able to jump to any spot in a video. Many digital movies are broken up into "chapters," making them easier to watch piecemeal (a plus for anyone with an infant in the house). Some DVDs allow you to change camera angles and make the picture window horizontal, like a movie theater's, or square, to fill the TV screen...
While a Divx deck can run DVDs, it also plays its own disks. Divx decks plug into the TV, just like DVD drives. But they plug into the phone line too. When you first set up your deck, you must establish an account with Divx central--your machine calls a toll-free number, and you key in credit-card information. (The player automatically calls headquarters once or twice a month in the middle of the night, which I find creepy.) You see, rather than simply renting Divx disks, you buy them outright, for $4.50, and never return them...