What is Vongo and DIVX? are they related in anyway?

Question

please provide some detailes

Answer 1

whoa captain copy and paste. It's pretty simple. Vongo you download movies for a monthly fee, and DIVX was a DVD rental service, now defunct.

Answer 2

I think you mean the DIVX which is Circuit city's product. I've provided both divX which is a compressed format and DIVX.

Vongo is a downloadable service provided by STARZ. That is downloading for money..

Vongo is a video on demand service, owned by Liberty Media's Starz Entertainment parent company of the Starz! network, that allows the user to download and view movies for a fixed price per month.

Vongo requires a high-speed broadband connection, and is only available to users in the United States. The service claims to offer high quality video playback of over 1,000 movies and 2,500 total video selections. Members pay a flat fee of $9.99 per month, and have access to unlimited downloads during the 30 day period. Separately, certain release are avaiable for Pay Per View; they incur a separate fee, and are only viewable for 24 hours. Users also have access to a streaming version of the Starz movie channel.

Vongo uses Adobe/Macromedia Flash Software developed by Schematic.(Source: Flashback Flash Future section of Adobe webpage,10.25.06). Additionally, the service uses Microsoft's Digital Rights Management, an encryption that regulates on which device files can be played or whether or not they can be burned onto discs. The software is compatible with PCs running Windows 2000 or later. Movies can be transferred and played on up to 3 devices but cannot be transferred to external drives or other storage media.

Currently, movies downloaded through Vongo are only viewable with the service's software. They are viewable within the confines of a certain time period; some movies are available for weeks, some for months. Once a movie expires, it is automatically deleted from the user's hard drive. The service claims an average download time of 30 to 40 minutes on a 90 minute movie.

Vongo is a video on demand service, owned by Liberty Media's Starz Entertainment parent company of the Starz! network, that allows the user to download and view movies for a fixed price per month.

Vongo requires a high-speed broadband connection, and is only available to users in the United States. The service claims to offer high quality video playback of over 1,000 movies and 2,500 total video selections. Members pay a flat fee of $9.99 per month, and have access to unlimited downloads during the 30 day period. Separately, certain release are avaiable for Pay Per View; they incur a separate fee, and are only viewable for 24 hours. Users also have access to a streaming version of the Starz movie channel.

Vongo uses Adobe/Macromedia Flash Software developed by Schematic.(Source: Flashback Flash Future section of Adobe webpage,10.25.06). Additionally, the service uses Microsoft's Digital Rights Management, an encryption that regulates on which device files can be played or whether or not they can be burned onto discs. The software is compatible with PCs running Windows 2000 or later. Movies can be transferred and played on up to 3 devices but cannot be transferred to external drives or other storage media.

Currently, movies downloaded through Vongo are only viewable with the service's software. They are viewable within the confines of a certain time period; some movies are available for weeks, some for months. Once a movie expires, it is automatically deleted from the user's hard drive. The service claims an average download time of 30 to 40 minutes on a 90 minute movie.


divX

DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. (formerly DivXNetworks, Inc.), including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. The DivX codec uses lossy MPEG-4 Part 2 compression, also known as MPEG-4 ASP, where quality is balanced against file size for utility. It is one of several codecs commonly associated with ripping, where audio and video multimedia are transferred to a hard disk and transcoded. As a result, DivX has been a center of controversy because of its use in the replication and distribution of copyrighted DVDs. Many newer "DivX Certified" DVD players are able to play DivX encoded movies, although the Qpel and GMC features are often omitted to reduce processing requirements. They are also excluded from the base DivX encoding profiles for compatibility reasons.

DIVX

DIVX (Digital Video Express) was an attempt by Circuit City and the entertainment law firm Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca and Fischer to create an alternative to video rental in the United States.

DIVX was a rental format variation on the DVD player in which a customer would buy a DIVX disc (similar to a DVD) at a low cost, which would be able to be freely viewed up to 48 hours from its initial viewing. After this period, the disc could be viewed by paying a continuation fee, typically $3.25. DIVX discs could only be played on special DIVX/DVD combo players that needed to be connected to a phone line. DIVX player owners had to set up an account with DIVX to which additional viewing fees could be charged. The player would call an account server over the phone line to charge for viewing fees similar to the way DirecTV and Dish Network satellite systems handle pay-per-view. Viewers who wanted unlimited viewing of a particular disc could pay to convert the disc to a "DIVX silver" disc for a special fee. The physical disc was not altered in any way. The viewer's account kept track of the status of each disc. "DIVX gold" discs that could be played an unlimited number of times on any DIVX player were announced at the time of DIVX's introduction, but no DIVX gold titles were ever released.