Stage6 Shuts Its Doors Forever

Quoted from the website (see http://www.Stage6.com):

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Stage6.com has been shut down. Thank you for supporting the service.

We created Stage6 with the mission of empowering content creators and viewers to discover a new kind of video experience. Ultimately, the continued operation of Stage6 was a very expensive enterprise that required an enormous amount of attention and resources that we at DivX are not in a position to continue to provide. There are a lot of other details involved, but at the end of the day it's really as simple as that.

The DivX experience will continue, of course. Every day new DivX Certified devices arrive on the market making it easy to move video beyond the PC. Products powered by DivX Connected, our new initiative that lets users stream video, photos, music and Internet services from the PC to the TV, are hitting retail outlets. We remain committed to empowering content creators to deliver high quality video to a wide audience, and we'll continue to offer services that will make it easy to find videos online in the DivX format.

It's been a wild ride, and none of it would have been possible without the support of our users. Thank you for making Stage6 everything that it was.

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How about our import features? They will be hindered now, as well as all existing DIVX videos you have embedded from DIVX, they will most likely be useless now. Sucks for anyone who had alot of videos from Stage6.... I had a few myself.

I wonder if the vShare Team will consider adding at least one other high traffic site's Embed codes, to replace it such as Veoh, MySpace.tv or DailyMotion (ones that have less chance of going away... hopefully).

Also, I see this as both a sign of hard times ahead for online video communities, but at the same time an opportunity for existing companies to step up to fill the gaps. Anyone else care to comment?

yep, missing stage6 myself a lot, and also wondering how to rid my vshare of all the videos hot linked from stage6.

Another good reason to actually stream it on your own bandwidth instead of embedding from another site.