The fine folks over at Macenstein spotted this special deal: a free license for the Mac version of DivX Pro, if you send in your email address today -- a $20 value. I can't see the end-of-offer indication on the site, but I'll take their word for it.With the Pro version you get the free player (naturally), plus DivX Converter for batch encoding and the DivX Pro codec for export from QuickTime Pro-aware applications. Based on the theory that you can never be too rich, too thin or have too many video compression applications, it's worth checking out.
Thanks Jonathan & Nik!
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6-07-2007 @ 6:55PM
Si said...
Woo, free stuff! Students of the world rejoice!
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6-07-2007 @ 7:10PM
G said...
I have sent two requests with two different email addresses and neither one of them have received the serial number. Oh well, that is why I use XVID anyway
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6-07-2007 @ 7:14PM
john russell said...
Thanks, TUAW!
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6-07-2007 @ 7:16PM
Pepe said...
I got my S/N within a minute of requesting it :-)
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6-07-2007 @ 7:27PM
Zach said...
I did it with 6 different email addresses from 3 different computers and got the same S/N on each one :)
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6-07-2007 @ 7:32PM
Andy said...
I just submitted and had my S/N before the download finished.
@G - check your spam folder to make sure the S/N didn't get caught there - keyword filtering on "DivX" and "Serial" will probably trip more than a few spam filters.
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6-07-2007 @ 7:42PM
scott said...
Why are they doing this?
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6-07-2007 @ 7:55PM
sageimac said...
I don't even know what this program does, but I got it cuz it's free!
Rose Rocks!
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6-07-2007 @ 8:07PM
Johnny Thrash said...
Thank you TUAW! Got my freebie! =)
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6-07-2007 @ 8:42PM
mck said...
Hoorah for free stuff! Thanks for the heads up guys.
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6-07-2007 @ 8:43PM
Al said...
scott:
"Why are they doing this?"
Because we're awesome, of course! ;)
P.S. check out http://stage6.divx.com for high quality DivX movies and free video hosting for your new creations :)
- Al / DivX
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6-07-2007 @ 8:43PM
mck said...
Sorry, making it remember by password.
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6-07-2007 @ 8:55PM
diehardapplefan said...
Sweet!! But I still don't get why they're doing this.
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6-07-2007 @ 10:19PM
Dar the Monk said...
@13
They could be doing what the original makers of "flip 4 mac" did and offer the program free for a short time before their buyers of the program takes over their script and sells it. They might have been bought out and as a sign of love towards us as consumers, they are doing something really nice.
Thanks DivX.
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6-07-2007 @ 10:50PM
Nathan Kunicki said...
They do this quite often. They did it a while back for three days only. I don't know what prompts it, but this is the third time it's come around.
Also, you can copy/paste and replace the "mac" with "pc" at the end of the url and get a serial number for the Windows version too, for those using Boot Camp. :)
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6-07-2007 @ 11:14PM
PSM said...
I've tried with two e-mail addresses and got my code right away, but the download link just hangs. One time I got it to download about 20% but then it stopped.
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6-08-2007 @ 12:23AM
Matt said...
It's 12:20 AM eastern here (Friday morning) and it's still available.
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6-08-2007 @ 2:25AM
Joseph said...
tried 2 emails, but never got a serial #. can anyone please post a serial up here?!
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6-08-2007 @ 2:29AM
Joseph said...
ok, tried a third email address and finally got the serial just moments ago :)
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6-08-2007 @ 2:52AM
Ovi said...
nothing like a free beer
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