Previews available to view or download in high-quality DivX media format
SAN DIEGO, CA AND TOKYO, JP–JULY 19, 2007–DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX) and Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia announced today the launch of a video channel on Stage6 (https://stage6.divx.com/SHORT-SHORTS-FILM-FESTIVAL-and-ASIA-2007) which will host Festival previews for viewing or downloading in the high-quality DivX® media format.
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2007 screened a multitude of innovative independent short films while in Tokyo for a continually expanding global audience. Eager film enthusiasts can now preview the films on Stage6. Currently available clips include “893239,” “Genius Party,” and “Epilog (Epilogue).”
The Stage6 channel offers an inside look into the film festival as it continues it’s tour into the fall and allows audiences worldwide a chance to interact with the content outside of the traditional physical location. By participating and contributing feedback, audiences can engage with other short film enthusiasts and content creators who comprise the Stage6 community.
“SSFF & ASIA is committed to the creative expression of independent short films that inspire a global community through innovative imagination,” said an SSFF & ASIA Executive. “Stage6 provides a great opportunity to increase exposure for the Festival while participating in a community of film-lovers who appreciate quality content.”
“SSFF & ASIA is helping foster an appreciation for quality film and it’s exciting that Stage6 is able to partner with Japanese content creators to be a platform for that,” said Darrius Thompson, Co-founder, Senior Vice President of Strategy and New Business at DivX, Inc. “Stage6 also provides an active medium for film festivals that are looking to not only build excitement for their event, but engage the community with their work.”
Designed for high-quality online viewing, Stage6 has become a significant venue for content creators in Japan and also allows users take videos off the PC to play on a range of compatible DivX Certified® DVD players, portable media players, in-car DVD players and other devices.
Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone rigorous testing to ensure a high-quality DivX media experience, including reliable video playback, interoperability with other DivX Certified devices and the visual quality users expect from DivX. To date, more than 90 million DivX Certified products from a variety of manufacturers have shipped worldwide.
To view the previews, visit the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia channel on Stage6 at https://stage6.divx.com/SHORT-SHORTS-FILM-FESTIVAL-and-ASIA-2007. You can also visit the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia web site at www.shortshorts.org.
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia
The mission of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia is to celebrate short films as a fertile arena for new cinematic talent and to raise public awareness of the format as powerful entertainment in and of itself, not merely an appetizer before the feature. Filmmaking began with short films, and many world-renowned filmmakers, from George Lucas and Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion and Pedro Almodóvar, began their careers making short films. The festival reaches audiences of 20,000 and awards 4,000,000 yen in prizes to winning filmmakers annually. As with the first motion pictures ever created, the short film medium continues to foster innovation, creativity, and expression. Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia nurtures an environment where new talents can exchange ideas and share their work with the public.
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in 2008.
About DivX, Inc.
DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 220 million times since January 2003, including over 70 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application, which is distributed from our website, www.divx.com. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.
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