Stage 6 quickly became my favorite place to download and watch high-quality videos. Well, just as it was getting good (my browser stopped crashing) - they are pulling the plug.

I always wondered how they could afford all that bandwidth... I guess they couldn't.

http://www.stage6.com/

Very sad news, I loved this site.

At least there's still redtube.

Yeah this does suck. I'd really only started using it recently...Was such a nice change from the grainy hell that is youtube.

It's no wonder... the amount of copyrighted videos up there was insane.

Still, there's Veoh / Joox and other sites. I still prefer to download torrents, since I can stream to my HDTV through my Xbox 360 or convert them to watch on my PSP/DS.

Joox is stage6.

Pwned. Oh well.

Yeah saw that message this morning when i logged on there, very disappointing

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Teaaman Lyrist

There really is a demand for this sorta thing though... I think I heard that Youtube was going to have a HD section... I dunno. Anything done in flash looks like ass pretty much.

There is a site called HULU that I am a beta-tester for, but their shit is in flash too - it looks good in a tiny screen, but if you try to maximize it - ouch.

DIVX is awesome... I loved being able to download stuff from the site, burn it to DVD and watch it on our stand alone player.

My wife and I like to watch foreign music videos and try to guess what country they are from =) Some of that foreign pop music is catchy =). Well for the next few days I am going to be sitting here downloading everything I can from stage6 before it poofs.

It was a great site.. I think maybe we aren't "there yet" as far as that sort of thing being affordable - I can't even begin to imagine how much bandwidth was consumed. Well, that and the copyright lawsuits. There was a ton of copyright stuff there, that's for sure. Our favorite was the music though.

Thing is, there are artist from around the globe that I had never heard of but are HUGE.