Don_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 1 month agoTIL Circuit City created a proprietary disposable type of DVD called a DIVX that was viewable for only 48 hours after initial viewing unless an additional fee was paid. Which led to bankruptcyen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1447arrow-down19
arrow-up1438arrow-down1external-linkTIL Circuit City created a proprietary disposable type of DVD called a DIVX that was viewable for only 48 hours after initial viewing unless an additional fee was paid. Which led to bankruptcyen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle to Today I [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month ago They also had famously bad customer service and made a lot of other very strange decisions about what products they would and would not carry. But but the jingle said ‘Service was state of the art’
But but the jingle said ‘Service was state of the art’
They were WAY ahead of their time, clearly.