The Rise and Fall of DIVX (GT Mini)
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib
3.7 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A short-lived video rental service helps sink a national retail chain in 1999.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees? |
| 0:05.0 | Are you interested in exploring the paranormal? |
| 0:07.0 | Faffled by stories of previous lives. |
| 0:10.0 | Well so are we. |
| 0:11.0 | In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena |
| 0:17.0 | and some horrific true crime cases. |
| 0:19.0 | Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok |
| 0:22.5 | and join us every Tuesday, |
| 0:24.6 | wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:26.9 | And be prepared to be totally and utterly, |
| 0:29.7 | perplexed. Video killed the video star. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm Rebecca Lebe. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:52.2 | And this is Ghost Town. |
| 1:09.1 | No. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town. In the late 1990s, as DVD technology was gaining momentum, Circuit City, major electronics retailer in the U.S., remember Circuit City? |
| 1:18.4 | Oh, do I remember Circuit City? |
| 1:21.2 | Ooh, a lot of time in there. |
| 1:24.1 | Not enough, apparently. |
| 1:25.5 | No, but I do remember on this hot L.A. Day, the air conditioning there was pristine. |
| 1:30.3 | Circus City embarked on an ambitious venture to revolutionize the home video market. |
| 1:34.4 | The initiative was the digital video express, commonly known as Divix. |
| 1:41.4 | The way we've received and watched video on demand, it was a bumpy road, |
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