Stage6 ends, no more free videos
It’s already quite an old news but the sad information about end of any filesharing site should be posted here. DivX has announced that at the end of this month they will discontinue operations of the Stage6.com video sharing site. They have already stopped user uploads and you can view sites through the end of the month. The compete traffic chart is below showing just under one million uniques in January 2008. DivX will focus on video sharing on third-party sites. With the traffic levels the site is showing and the 30,000 videos on the site, couldn’t they find a buyer? Seems a bit off to just close the service with such strong traffic levels.
The company did say that they worked on a exit plan since mid-2007. “Our core business is to work with a wide variety of partners to give consumers a high-quality digital video experience on any device or platform,” said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. “By no longer expending resources on Stage6, we sharpen our focus on creating a global standard for digital video while building a business that maximizes shareholder value. We will provide more information related the Stage6.com shutdown on our fourth quarter earnings call, scheduled for March 11, 2008.” I wouldn’t personally think the reasons for closure were only work- and resource-related: it might be also an enormous pressure from antipiracy organizations which didn’t like the full movies and TV shows being uploaded to Stage6.
Source: CenterNetworks
It’s too bad, I liked stage6! I hate VEOH and YouCrap…
http://www.ovguide.com has many alternatives
Like you state Martin, they do have a high volume of traffic, but imagine the costs to serve all that content…
they were shutting down due to the MPAA duh
@2
Stage6 was the Core Streaming site.
All the Alternatives stream from Stage 6
The only site left that i know of is Ninjavideo.net
Don’t know how long that site will last though… let’s hope for the best.
The funny thing is, once one idea ends, a new one begins.
So give it a few months, there will most likely be a new alternative to Stage 6, or on the other hand, Someone will buy them out.
The Wise One: thanks for you wise comment. if you haven’t noticed, we are just group of folks sitting in their homes and doing all this stuff for the community which emerged around this site. we are nowhere near professional online media, we do it just for fun and our visitors. noone can really sit 24/7 in front of his computer and scan all news servers. besides, there would be always some idiot moaning about old news, no matter how fast we bring it. if you don’t like it, leave us please, there are 200 000 other people every day which seem to enjoy the site.
i rather watch stage6 than youtube, better quality videos and bigger sizes.
i dont know where to find thme again, i mean hd quality, looong videos and all that in one.
why oooh why they close, now i am stuck on low quality youtube.
can someone put some alternative links for sites like stage6 with long videos and hd quality and option to download, i need pure clon of stage 6
anyone ?!?!
thx
Aww, I liked having decent quality streaming video - youtube is simply unwatchable for me. Guess all the copyright claims finally killed them.
And a note to The Wise One (3) - this isn’t slashdot, if you don’t like how quickly the news stories are posted, buzz off to one of the many other sites available on the internets.
Stage 6 was a site I stumbled across only 2 months ago. It was the best site I found for streaming anime.
If any 1 can tell me of another site I could now use to stream anime that would be amazing?
Google have mentioned that higher quality videos for youtube is something that’s on the cards for the near future.
Vimeo already has their HD channel up and running.
http://www.vimeo.com/hd
we are building a new website with High definition Content.
In a short time will be alive…
htpp://newstage6.com
Ohhhh, thats crap news!!
R.I.P. Stage6
It was fun while it lasted.
http://www.stage6.com/SuperFreak-Productions/video/389/DivX-Vandelized
Hahahahahahahaaa, The Wise One!! I bet you feel a right tit now, hahaa!!
They closed because there is no way to make money out of it.
i loved this link stage6.com dam the videos are heck better that youtube sad just sad but i have other video links i found out four days ago i just became a member like two weeks ago.. o well another will take it’s place… if you all know any website and like to tell me just write them drown thanks
Ashame these guys are out. Had a great time watching some movies on that site lol, even when they weren’t allowed.
However, too many unnecessary videos of asians and anime…it ruined the site. gg
A lot of people I know are downloading as many Stage6 Vids as possible, so far around @500GB DOwnloaded.
Martin, you should refrain from lacing third party information with your own thoughts and then signing off the source at the end. That’s unprofessional. Your own thoughts and comments, which I’m sure we are all interested to hear, should come AFTER the quote from your source.
Is this going to affect the ability to get a Joox link for releases in the future?
i am the most unlucky person here
i knew abt the site from the day it was lauched but back ten i had a slow connection and never checked it out for obvious reasons
i checked it again 5 days ago and found out its the best site to get live concerts and high quality version with easy downloads but hell the next day i get this stupid message on the front page and my honeymoon with stage6 last only 48 hrs
i feel like flaming the stage6 sissies for crawling and die out under the pressures from the organisations
i hope piratebay guys buy them hahahahaha
anyways someone
plz post alternative websites like stage6 here
No more Joox
Will miss joox.net more
Wow, horrible news. I loved Stage6. It was the highest-quality video host out there, you could even upload 1080p content with no loss in quality whatsoever. Even though it probably won’t go anywhere, you guys should sign the petition to keep it alive. Just in case.
Petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/pros599/petition.html
The coolest part about Stage6 was the fact that they allowed downloads by default, as opposed to sites like YouTube, which make you use an external plugin or app to grab videos.
Also cool was the fact that the downloaded videos were simple .avis, and therefore very easy to convert to other formats.
Sux
really liled that you could d/l good quality vids from them, and not the Flashcrap you~tube etc got..
Loved the 1080p stuff they had..
Argh, I don’t want to go back to FLV crap like YouTube.
DivX delivers great quality while it was rather bandwidth-friendly.
RIP Stage6, the internet will never be the same again
I hope DIVX knows what they are doing, I own the stock and it’s tanking.
Hey guys any other alternative to watch movies or Documentaries?
NO GOOGLE
never heard of um…they must suck
besides ovguide, any other similar sites to stage6?
FCUK! I feel like I’m on a death sentence & waiting to be executed. If only there was a real god & miracles were possible… I’ll return to RLSLOG after 1 day - gonna bunk office & only leech leech leech for the whole day from Stage6
@37 - im with you poppa. loads of links ive just not bothered dling till now, cause never had any trouble streaming them. i got on the stage6 wagon early, so got the email about closing the other night… managed to get 35gb so far… theres just too much to choose from! and so little time!!
Posted an article about stage 6 closing at:
http://averad-blog.com/news/stage6-to-shut-down-on-february-28
People are moving movies from Stage 6 as fast as they can to other services like Veoh. Companies hosting their videos on Stage6 are being helped to migrate their videos to other pages, DivX says.
Quicksilverscreens has some good forum posts about stage6 closing as well as comments from users who heavily relied on stage6.
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=72209
Well… http://www.yoox.net is still operative
I meant of course http://www.joox.net
Direct Quote from Joox:
Important news
Today I became aware that http://www.stage6.com is closing down in 3 days. I will continue to run Joox and use those 3 days to add support to other video hosts and direct links to divx movies. This means that there will be a transitional period where not many videos will be available, but I hope that with your countined support it will work out for the best.
You can download the original file formats from veoh again,
So no more flv’s. Just download the avi’s, only problem is you have to use the veoh tv software. And its slower than stage6
Its a quick fix anyways.
Use quicksilverscreen.com to find the latest videos
around half a day to go till it dies :sob:
ovguide sucks compared to stage6
dammit how can they kill off the best quality streaming on the net! dammit this really sucks !
Not getting AVI @Veoh but quality is good IMO.
Ppl, plz check http//www.guba.com & post comment… I’ve heard they have AVI DL feature but again DL not working for me.
NINJAVIDEO.NET IS SHUTDOWN? I WON’T COME UP ANYMORE!!!? ANY ANSWERS!!???
I have found a site that is quite new and its still a beta version ,but from what i have seen posted on the web ..looks like it has allot of potential .
100mb files to non users
700mb to users..
wwww.divxvine.com
sry about that ..didnt get the link right..
http://divxvine.com