Stage6, will be gone at the end of the month (and it’s the shortest month of the year!).
It was a video-sharing website that got right what Youtube and others failed to do. They were able to provide high quality videos and get some pretty decent content. Granted, it’s a proprietary format (but then again so is Flash) and the video sizes were quite a bit larger, but it was lovely.
I could download full-length episodes of shows and short films with little effort. It will be sad to see it go, but I always wondered what their revenue-making scheme was. Although it was a nice idea, they seemed to have no method of sustaining such a large project with huge video files (some of them in HD). At lease with Vuze, the Azureus people are footing the bill for server bandwidth (since it uses peer-to-peer torrent technology).
At any rate, farewell, Stage6. Many good things die young.
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Goodbye Stage6
