moonlit Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Stgae6 will be closing its online doors as of the 28th of February, it's a sad day for online video (and my connection, having just uploaded a pile of IPTV shows to it >_<). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/di...tage6_shutdown/ http://www.stage6.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 The web 2.0 bust begins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Dragon Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Wow, what a shock! I can kind of understand their point of it being to expensive, but isn't DivX a really big company? I mean, they should have a few dollars left to put into this great service... I never really liked youtube, google video or any other low-quality flash-videosharing-site, but stage6 took it to the new level. Being a filmmaker myself I often used their service to upload my videos in high quality rather than uploading them to youtube where the pixels would be big enough to play chess on them! Does anyone of you guys know of any other Videosharing site that lets me upload Video in good (HD) quality and is as easy to use as stage6 is/was? In their post on the frontpage of stage6 theay said: As Stage6 grew quickly and dramatically (accompanied by an explosion of other sites delivering high quality video), [...] So what are those other sites delivering high quality video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 There problem is that there audience is primarily people who want to pirate TV shows and use ad-block. Whoever manages to monitize this market will be a rich person, but its not happened yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Lets just hope that they are closing it to make way for something new and better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 This is depressing. I don't think any site can match the quality that Stage6 had. No buffering and full screen with a double click.... Fuck... just fuck... The worst part is I never saw a way to donate to the site, or even pay in some way for their service.... I would have too. Gah, back to torrents and *shudders* veoh *shudders* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor512 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 most of us adblock users and adblock filter makers only block ads that become annoying on some sites, i allowed the 1 or 2 text ads because whey were in a good place that didnt get in your way but then the site decided to move their ad right in the middle of the real content, those ads got blocked with in 20 minutes of updating their site to look like that google used to only have 1 small sponsored ad area on their page, it was ok to have and the content was relevant but later on they decided to add just as much ad content as the search content so they all got blocked and another problem with google ads is when they decided to add more ads to their page, the ads became less relevant i searched CRT monitor dead pixel and google advertises vitamin pills wtf does that have to do with a dead pixel on a crt monitor (and yes crts do have dead pixels happened to my old compaq mv540 crt) now when you look, anyone who makes adblock filters will make sure all google ads are blocked because they became useless users don't mind ads, just don't make the ads annoying for example, the g4 forums 90% of the file size of every forum page is ads the ads take the page size from 70-100KB all the way up to 4MB depending on the ad. on the adblock filters i make, i blocked every single annoying pile of crap from the page, and their site loads 200 times as fast now no one likes annoying ads, g4 still has not learned, showing a full screen flash ad will not make someone any more likely to buy some nasty food it will make them hate anything that has to do with that company because while they were reading a forum post, a full screen ad came up and if you clicked on it, it doesnt even open a new window, it takes you to the ad website and what made it worst was that these ads would come up while you were making a forum post and the close button loaded slightly offscreen and was small and the ads were annoying flashy and had annoying audio digg tried this also and that day almost every comment was users saying that they just installed adblock and need better filters (i recommended mine and got about 500 downloads of the filter ) ads are only useful until they loose meaning there were times when i wanted good ads and couldnt find anything when i was searching for a new monitor, i disabled adblocking hoping for some ads on some monitors while i searched and 99% of the ads i saw were ads on women, turbotax, viagra and other random pills, geeksquad, and nortons and other crap, but not one sponsored ad on the products i was looking for the site owners who complain about people blocking ads should disable their own adblocker and look as the ads that they allowed to be posted on their site if someone is looking for a monitor, don't show them how to spice up their love life if someone is looking for a heatsink don't advertise a health care plan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 [me=Famicoman]registers Stage7[/me] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 [me=Famicoman]registers Stage7[/me] It's already taken, according to a Yahoo Geocities page :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famicoman Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Of course it is, I took it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 :-P http://samspade.org/whois/stage7.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Famicoman, you moved to Cali? :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabster21 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 It must have been costing them a fortune. Like said I use adblock, and I used to download a shit load from them. I best get in there sharpish before thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Of course it costs a fortune to run a video operation of their quality. Hell look at Revver, they had just as craptastic quality as youtube and just died (sold for chump change + tons of debt). I'm afraid Veoh is next. Yes, Veoh, if you're reading you're starting to show signs of falling apart. Upgrade your servers or throw in the towel. This is by no means an indication in the slowing down of video on the Internet. For every site that goes under there are likely 10 more new media web jockeys shaking the VC tree. The reward for being #2, hell #5 in this game is too high. Sure youtube owns this game, looks the crappiest, yet has the least incentive to innovate. Then you've got others like break and metacafe that can exist comfortably in the shadows, catering to a niche market while staying small, versatile, and *hopefully* profitable. It's kinda like the iPod vs. the hundreds of other players out there. If creative wasn't making a dime in that space I doubt they'd be still in the race. Yet think of all the other players that have come and gone. Video sharing sites are just as common as MP3 players, and thats not a bad thing. I'll miss Stage6 for their innovative take on streaming media. Hell, I'll be sad when they go under and Hak5 episode 1-6 are no longer available for direct download (thx for the bandwidth;). I'll miss their open communication with content creators, yes that's you Ben Cote. They were always so cool to us, especially in the early development of the site. They even had us playing at their booth at CES one year. You don't get that with youtube. I felt compelled to post the obituary on the homepage. Stage6 was always so good to us. We will miss its creativity and innovation. Stage6 was truly leet. http://www.hak5.org/archives/228 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I think UMG had something to do with it as well: http://seekingalpha.com/article/63562-can-...-stage6-pirates http://averad-blog.com/tech/divx-and-stage...lk-piracy-plank And yes, I am now whoring bandwidth trying to save as much Anime from Stage6 as I can (stuff that I can't find torrents for). I'll find it a good home where everyone can enjoy :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabath Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I'll miss Stage6 for their innovative take on streaming media. Hell, I'll be sad when they go under and Hak5 episode 1-6 are no longer available for direct download (thx for the bandwidth;). I'll miss their open communication with content creators, yes that's you Ben Cote. They were always so cool to us, especially in the early development of the site. They even had us playing at their booth at CES one year. You don't get that with youtube. http://www.hak5.org/archives/228 Not possibe to upload episode 1-6 to veoh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLSS Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 aww crap :( i <3-ed stage6 :( its the best video service on the web :( why o why .... i guess that the well known french site Dailymotion is a alternative for hd video , they use flash tho as far as i kno , and i <3ed stage6 :( i do hope they'll release the code etc for the divx web player tho so someone else can perfect and put up the system again ... :( dailymotion supporting hd : http://blog.dailymotion.com/2008/02/18/dai...n-a-new-player/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor512 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 stage 6 were the only ones to offer this quality using divx, if that quality was offered through flash, the cpu usage would be much higher and the video will be more laggy instead of selling stage 6 they should have offered to sell it to another company that would be willing to handle it with a little bit of work stage 6 could have crushed youtube since it offered much better video and audio quality and faster load times and none of the 5 seconds loading and you having to refresh the page constantly to get it to load completely youtube just gets more annoying every day, many of their videos have the annoying in player ad where the video window flashes then a ad slides up from the bottom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unasoto Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 This is truly going to be a sad day Stage6 is where I Discovered hax5 :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trc202 Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 stage 6 is where i happened to find most of my animes in high quality i guess i will have to go back to veoh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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