DivX, Inc., the digital entertainment company that created the DivX media format, and MC&C, one of the largest aggregators of VOD (Video-On-Demand) content in Europe, today announced a partnership to make available a range of premium movie content in the high-quality DivX format.
MC&C is based in Geneva (Switzerland) and Brussels (Belgium). The partnership with DivX allows MC&C to promote the biggest database available in Europe for VOD content, which will be released in the securely protected DivX format.
More than 1,700 titles will be available to download on www.clicmovies.net, where MC&C will offer a wide range of premium content movies in all genres. All of the titles will be encoded into the high quality, secure DivX format that provides seamless compatibility with over 1,800 models of DivX Certified consumer electronic devices from dozens of major hardware manufacturers. Purchased films can be burned to CD or DVD blank media and played back on DivX Certified DVD players.
“We are very proud of this new partnership with DivX because we strongly believe that it’s just the beginning of a new trend spreading worldwide,” said Cedric N Piaget, co-founder and CEO of MC&C sàrl. “We are thrilled to be one of the first on the European market to provide consumers with more options to enjoy their entertainment content whenever and wherever they choose."
"By partnering with MC&C, DivX can continue to expand and reach the global community in effort to create and build a better media future for consumers everywhere," said Mark How, Vice President of Business Development at DivX, Inc.
About MC&C
MC&C is a company founded in early 2005. It is specialized in marketing operations with the press, using multimedia material to help boost magazines and newspapers sales. It has two offices; one in Geneva, Switzerland (headquarters), and the other near Brussels, Belgium, which handles all European operations. MC&C develops new tools using the internet to adapt its core business to the needs of the press today. Aiming for 4,000 titles to offer through its website www.clicmovies.net, MC&C’s goal is to be the biggest films and documentaries database in Europe.
About DivX, Inc.
DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 180 million times in the last four years, including over 50 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application. We distribute this software from our website, DivX.com, which averaged over five million unique visitors per month during the second quarter of 2006. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. Over 46 million DivX Certified hardware devices have been shipped worldwide, including over 10 million devices reported to us by our customers during the second quarter of 2006. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution. For more information, visit www.divx.com.
