SAN DIEGO & HOLLYWOOD–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX – News) and deviantART, the art-focused community site, today announced the launch of deviantART Film, a new video category within deviantART.com. This new category features the DivX® media format as the default “high-quality” viewing option for users. Visitors can explore this newest web site addition at https://browse.deviantart.com/film/.
The new film offering allows deviantART members to easily upload and view DivX video content. Users can watch DivX videos in full-screen on the PC or download videos to playback on any DivX Certified® consumer electronics device. Over 100 million DivX Certified devices, including DVD players, mobile handsets and portable media players, have shipped to the marketplace to date.
DivX video solutions power the distribution of content across a number of third-party sites, enabling online publishers and content providers to easily offer a high-quality video experience that extends beyond the PC. With over 17 million unique monthly visitors and over five million registered users, deviantART is one of the most popular sites for independent content creators to share their artistic works with global audiences.
“DivX is an ideal partner for us. They are actively committed to providing independent creators with the necessary tools to create and distribute meaningful content at the highest level of visual quality,” said Danielle McKay, Director of Artist Relations for deviantART. “deviantART Film participants choosing DivX can share their artistic vision with a global audience in a high quality interoperable format that can be easily watched through low cost devices in the home environment.”
“deviantART is an innovative site that offers serious content creators the ability to engage with a large and dynamic community of users, and represents a strong addition to the existing universe of high-quality DivX content,” said Patrice Lagrange, Vice President and Group Business Manager, Media Languages at DivX, Inc. “With our ‘powered by DivX’ content approach, we offer third parties like deviantART a strong enabling platform to easily add high-quality video distribution capabilities to their sites. The DivX ecosystem of consumer electronics devices, from DVD players to mobile handsets, means deviantART users can easily enjoy their videos in the living room or on the go.”
For more information, visit www.deviantART.com.
About deviantART
deviantART is the leading online destination for the global art community. Comprised of artists, writers and film makers alike, deviantART aggregates and exhibits more high-quality, user-generated art content than any other destination on the web. To view the best art, literature and film content that the web has to offer and to meet and interact with a community of artists and art fans, please visit us at www.deviantART.com.
About DivX, Inc.
DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. DivX’s first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 240 million times since January 2003, including over 80 million times during the last twelve months. DivX has since built on the success of the companys codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application, which is distributed from the DivX website, www.divx.com. The company also licenses its technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certifies their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, DivX currently generates revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.
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