Online Video Hosting Stage6.com Shutting Down
What a shock news I read today! Stage6.com a high quality video online hosting is well known with its DivX file format will shut down their operation on 28 February 2008. A post made by Tom (aka Spinner) on 25 February 2008 explains why they are shutting down the website. With the very sort notification a lot of Stage6 user complaint it as you can see it on their reply to the announcement post.
I know Stage 6 for quite some time, almost a year. Within that time Stage 6 has become very popular among online video sharing, because Stage 6 provide high quality videos using DivX format instead of Flash video like YouTube and other video share hosting. What I like from Stage 6 is that you can download the video file by clicking the link they provide, unlike YouTube which need you to install plugin on your Firefox browser to be able to download the .flv file.
From the announcement, it seems that Stage 6 cannot handle the growth of their community. Stage 6 has been providing free membership, why they didn’t think about paid membership? I’m sure it can help a bit to support the operational cost. What I’m thinking is that they actually don’t want to continue the website anymore. I guess the purpose of Stage 6 is to promote DivX format and it did successfully, so there is no reason for them to keep it online. Too bad.. I would like to have Stage 6 still up and running as they are the best in high quality video sharing.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
sayang juga ya!!!
February 27th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
biasa, jika kehabisa dana, sdm dan upaya.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
walah.. ridu baru tau malahan ttg si stage6.com tau2 udah gak ada yah.. gak ngerasain donk??
March 1st, 2008 at 2:00 am
wah.. baru mo nyoba padahal..
March 1st, 2008 at 11:56 am
yeah.. it’s too bad that they are closing. I usually download tv serial from stage6.com
March 1st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
maybe they should sell it so it can survive..
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
some bad news.. rar,
i watch movies there.
haay.
March 4th, 2008 at 10:52 am
yeah.. i watch movies and tv series there too. now because of they closing i guess i’ll watch tv series in flash video (which low quality and small screen size) and worst in parts
March 4th, 2008 at 11:36 am
yaaa..
blom pernah nyoba padahal
March 6th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
bro.. capcha di postingan yg terbaru di atas gak tampil.. katanya harus di dengar gitu.. gimana donk??