DivX video compression technology is supposed to turn the web into a big video library, doing for video what MP3 has done for music. “I just wanted, longed in fact, to spend half a day – which is what the DivX savvy told me to expect from my T1 line – waiting for a movie to amble onto my computer. It apparently takes anywhere from two to 10 hours to download a DivX version of a film, but I was ready.” With all the hassles and complications, though, as it stands now DivX “remains a technology with a lot of theoretical potential and some very practical failures. Great it may become; MP3 it is not.” – Salon 05/31/00