Stage6 is dead, long live the Stage6 clones -- until they go down
Last night one of the most talked-about DiVX clones, Vreel launched in public beta. And then the site went down after it was hit by a rush of traffic and several apparent attacks on the site. Durign the few minutes that Vreel was publicly available, the site looked pretty good. It features a fair number of videos, makes use of the DiVX web player, and allows you to watch high quality videos in full screen.
One of the things that really sets Vreel apart from other sites like YouTube is support for videos of any length. What that means is that while you won't find too many videos that are clearly labeled Lost episode 1, you can find plenty of full-length TV shows and movies if you look around. That means that once Vreel recovers from its traffic and hacker problems it may still face legal challenges.
But if you're tired of waiting for Vreel to get its act together, you should know that this is hardly the only site hoping to replace Stage6 in you hearts and minds. Others include Stage Next, Stagevu (which is currently down for maintenance), and SetVid. The video selection at these three sites is somewhat limited. But at least they're up and running (most of the time), which is more than Vreel can say at the moment.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Ab said 5:35PM on 6-20-2008
"But the company decided the web service wasn't worth the price of bandwidth."
If only DivX had played their cards right, they could have funded that with a little more advertising. It's a real shame it got taken down.
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coqofthenorth said 5:30PM on 6-20-2008
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Will said 9:36PM on 6-20-2008
vreel is currently upgrading it's hardware too
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j35t3r said 6:30PM on 6-22-2008
Have no fear fellow HD lovers! Despite vreel's minor problems, I have a feeling that it will prevail as champion of the stage6 clones.
You guys just have to look past all the minor F-ups that are going on now and realize that the site just went into open beta less than a week ago. There are going to be problems, as with beta versions of everything else, but the bugs will get worked out.
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Sergi said 7:11AM on 6-23-2008
Hi, I found another site that allow users to upload video to 4GB size, and offers real High Definition, using h.264 codec.
The site is http://Wuapi.com
The qualitiy is really good, and seems that they don't have streaming problems.
Could be wuapi the next stage6?
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