DivX 5.0 is Coming Soon!

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I got a mail from DivX and saw @ the site of DivX that a new version is coming soon. But! they are gonna auctioning off the golden master build of DivX 5.0, including the Ultimate DivX? Encoding Box. Proceeds go to charity.
Auction ends: 01:00 GMT-0800, Saturday 2002-03-02 Click on Read More... to see what the "Golden Master Build of DivX 5.0" is.

DivX 5.0 Golden Master Build Own a piece of DivX? video history, and be the only person in the world with the official "golden master" CD of DivX 5.0. (Yes, this is the real deal. Go to DivX.com and see that it is referenced there.) Here's what you get
A kick-ass, high-end PC that includes a CD with the golden master build of DivX 5.0. Your PC is designed and built by Gej (the creator of DivX) and is signed on the case by all the members of the DivX Advanced Research Centre (DARC), the team of engineers that makes DivX the best video compression technology on the planet. It is the Ultimate DivX Video Encoding Machine. And believe us, Gej knows how to design and build encoding boxes. This baby can smoke at up double real-time encoding speeds. The specs
The Ultimate DivX? Video Encoding Machine, a top-of-the-line PC that can decode and encode DivX video at alarming and drool-inducing rates. This PC includes: dual AMD MP1500+ processors (graciously donated by our good friends at AMD)
Asus A7M266-D motherboard
512 MB (2x256MB) DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 8500 64 MB DDR video card
80 GB Wester Digital 7200 t/r hard drive
Combo DVD-ROM/CD-R drive
Keyboard and mouse
Windows XP Professional
cool-looking case signed by all the members of DARC including Gej, the Father of DivX himself. A CD containing the Golden Master build of DivX 5.0 (the very first golden master build, straight from our compiler to your CD) Other stuff
Payment is accepted by check or money order. If you're the winner and that doesn't work for you, contact us and we can work something else out. We will pay shipping fees, including international shipping fees. All proceeds from this auction (minus auction fees, shipping fees, and sales taxes) will go to the Internet Moving Images Archive, a very cool non-profit organization that is collecting, digitizing, and storing older public domain films. They don't use DivX video, but hey--it's a very cool idea, so we forgive them. Have fun, and stay tuned. We promise, DivX 5.0 is coming real soon now... :-)