JamieG Analysis

Recently DivX purchased MainConcept.
This is a very interesting move but really a very cleaver one. And here is my opinion why.
MainConcept is a leading developer in video encoding and decoding software. For example Adobe (New Flash Player) plus many other main stream companies use it. They have a well respected H.264 encoder/decoding. [...]

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DivX has just purchased MainConcept.  (See announcement) Let me type that again.
DivX, the Codec company of choice for Pirated media, has just purchased the leading Codec company for H.264, the slated Codec of choice for media for the coming future.
Now that does this all mean?  Well straight of the bat, this is likely to mean [...]

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Recently my work has taken me into researching and developing RIAs. (Rich Internet Applications) These are business applications that are developed to operate over the web. Just type in your URL address, login and work. In many ways this is the future (Unless you have a good reason like doing graphics, and video editing.)
As [...]

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