Stage6.com off line.

Hoy voy a aprovechar a bajarme lo que pueda. El jueves no hay mas Stage6.
Desastre, and emerrrgencyy!!.

Como despedida:

NOTE: I'm reposting the same message I put up this morning to open the blog back up for comments.

Rest assured, we are reading what you write and appreciate the outpouring. I’m Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service. I’m writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, 2008. Upload functionality has already been turned off, and you’ll be able to view and download videos until Thursday.

I know this news will come as a shock and disappointment to many Stage6 users, and I’d like to take a few moments to explain the reasons behind our decision.

We created Stage6 with the mission of empowering content creators and viewers to discover a new kind of video experience. Stage6 began as an experiment, and we always knew there was a chance that it might not succeed.

In many ways, though, the service did succeed, beyond even our own initial expectations. Stage6 became very popular very quickly. We helped gain exposure for some talented filmmakers who brought great videos to the attention of an engaged community. We helped prove that it’s possible to distribute true high definition video on the Internet. And we helped broaden the Internet video experience by offering content that is compatible with DVD players, mobile devices and other products beyond the PC.

So why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is that the continued operation of Stage6 is a very expensive enterprise that requires an enormous amount of attention and resources that we 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.

Now, why didn’t we think of that before we decided to create Stage6 in the first place, you may ask? That’s a good question. When we first created Stage6, there was a clear need for a service that would offer a true high quality video experience online because other video destinations on the Internet simply weren’t providing that to users. A gap existed, and Stage6 arrived to fill it.

As Stage6 grew quickly and dramatically (accompanied by an explosion of other sites delivering high quality video), it became clear that operating the service as a part of the larger DivX business no longer made sense. We couldn’t continue to run Stage6 and focus on our broader strategy to make it possible for anyone to enjoy high quality video on any device. So, in July of last year we announced that we were kicking off an effort to explore strategic alternatives for Stage6, which is a fancy way of saying we decided we would either have to sell it, spin it out into a private company or shut it down.

I won’t (and can’t, really) go into too much detail on those first two options other than to say that we tried really hard to find a way to keep Stage6 alive, either as its own private entity or by selling it to another company. Ultimately neither of those two scenarios was possible, and we made the hard decision to turn the lights off and cease operation of the service.

So that’s where we are today. After February 28, Stage6 will cease to exist as an online destination. But the larger DivX universe will continue to thrive. 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.


Tear *^...

John Scatman - Scatman.

Qué tan 90's y gay es esta canción?!.

Tiene todos los elementos.

Y para esas personitas espedziales* que no pueden ver videos acá el audio:

Se van paratráss, se meee vaaan paratraaassssssss!!!

Atrás de la raashhamarishaa!!.


Yo no te vooyy a moleestarr maass martha, estas insistiendo? insistiissss!, no me torrrtuuureeess martaaa No hay nada de que hablaarr..!!

Esto es un calzoncillo de hommmbreee, sosss yegua, sos yeeguaaaaa ehhh como te convertisste en una experrrta en calzonciiillosss. sosssss yeeeeeeguuuuaaaaaaaa marrthaaaaaaaaa! (igualita a mi tía abuela).

Shoraaaa Martaaaa!!!!! si queres schorar shooora!!!.

Benannciooo, qué es eso!???? haayyyy MIRA que langostiinosssssss. COMETELO TODO VOSS ENTONCESSSSSS ya que no me dejás comer a mi, desgraciada!!!


Possstraaada e inuutill, mire el olor que dessspreeendoo....

Quien marcó mi decisión por una carrera (?).



Y no he recibiiido ni un puto beso!! Criatura de diosss vaya nomas vaya nomas. Porque por más que me bussquen no me van a encontrar!!



Esta me la regalo mi marido...
No se pierdan el interés repentino de este sujeto montaner por el ruso cuando entra, y después pregunta rápidamente ''de que nacionalidad es!!'' (más lejos, más caro). Declarando después que hace ''gimnasia pasiva''(?).



AYY divinnaaa adioo adiooo!! (mi otra tía abuela.)


Que vuelvaa, necesito Gasalla fresco!!.

Jay Brannan.

Los caminos de Youtube suelen conducirnos a lugares inesperados, la mayoría de las veces avergonzantes y decadentes interpretaciones de temas famosos, pero también, de vez en cuando, puede dejarnos delante sorpresas. Eso pasó a principio de año, aunque en su momento no me asombró demasiado.

Hace dos días en el tubeperfil de un blogger moribundamente desquiciado encontré entre sus favoritos un video que yo venía viendo desde diciembre. Entonces me decidí a hablarles sobre: Jay Brannan.

Se podría definir lo que Jay produce como folk, en un estado bastante puro a pesar de contar con la variante de ser folk gay.
La totalidad de las canciones son de su autoría, y aunque está todo envasado en melodías simples de acordes básicos, llega con textos de un humor bastante irónico que me hace reír. Como no es de extrañarse, el muchacho nació en un reprimido condado, para realizar su experiencia liberadora al mudarse a L.A. y luego N.Y.

A continuación el video en cuestión. Dos cosas: se percibe un acento bastante amanerado en el comienzo, y lo que dice me hizo esperar lo peor, pero aguanten hasta que empieze a cantar, deja fluir la voz de una forma mucho más atrapante:

Jay ha incursionado en el cine con ''Shortbus'', en un papel secundario-protagónico. También participó en el soundtrack del film con la cancion ''Soda shop'' de la cual veremos un vivo desde los estudios toilette en N.Y. según sus propias declaraciones. Los primeros minutos están dedicados a un poco de catarsis propia pero esperen.

En fin, si quieren descargarse dos lindos temas para ir a la cama, acá tienen:

Half-Boyfriend.

Ever After Happily.

To Jay:
1. I would definitely download your cd if you make one.
2. The day i see you on some-shit like american idol, or acting like clay aiken i´ll erase all this crap and say that you´re awful ok?.


P.D.: Más información?: Jay´s site. Film´s site.

P.D.2:Le diremos en un futuro a Damien Rice que arme las valijas y se pensione?.