DivX officially coming to PS3

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Good news for PS3 owners ( i expect Microsoft to follow)

TOKYO & SAN DIEGO, Nov 13, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DIVX | charts | news | PowerRating -- DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) today announced that DivX(R) video technology will be integrated into PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(TM)) from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE). The popular computer entertainment system will be added to the ecosystem of devices that currently support DivX video playback. To date, over 100 million DivX Certified(R) products have been shipped into the market, and it is anticipated PS3 will significantly expand that number.

"We are excited to work with Sony Computer Entertainment to bring DivX to PS3," said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. "Our technology will expand the multimedia functionality of PS3 by enabling users to enjoy access to the broad library of content in the DivX digital media format."

Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone a rigorous testing program to ensure a high-quality DivX media experience that includes reliable video playback and excellent visual quality. DivX is currently working to certify PS3 and deliver a superior digital media technology to consumers in the near future. Current PS3 end users will be able to add DivX functionality to their systems via a separate system software update at a forthcoming date. PS3 game title developers will be able to utilize DivX's decoder technology by updating the system software of PS3's Software Development Kit to version 2.00, which was released by SCE on November 2nd.

To learn about DivX technology, please visit www.divx.com.
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Divx coming to PS3

It has been announced that DivX® video technology will be integrated into the PS3.

Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX commented, “We are excited to work with Sony Computer Entertainment to bring DivX to PS3. Our technology will expand the multimedia functionality of PS3 by enabling users to enjoy access to the broad library of content in the DivX digital media format.”

Current PS3 end users will be able to add DivX functionality to their systems via a separate system software update at a forthcoming date. PS3 game title developers will be able to utilise DivX’s decoder technology by updating the system software of PS3’s Software Development Kit to version
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I suspect this will have some limitations. I would be very very surprised, if people could play their divx files off the net on the PS3 tbh.

Plus who want's to when H264 can be played at 720p or 1080p?


rp200
 
DivX files will probably have to conform to the standard resolutions and things. A lot of stuff on the net is just encoded willy nilly.
 
ic1male said:
DivX files will probably have to conform to the standard resolutions and things. A lot of stuff on the net is just encoded willy nilly.
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Yep, it's all gonna boil down to encoding profiles, and those that wanted to watch their low resolution pixelly files on their HDTV's are going to be disappointed.


rp200
 
Great news indeed.

Now, I would hope there is no DRM involved.
My current DVD player supports DRMd DivX files, but I've never used one.

I make a lot of DivX files myself, TV episodes that I want to keep.
I don't crunch the crap out of them like some internet eps do, I manually set the res to 720, and keep the bitrate to about 50% of the original.
Just means I can store more on a disk/HDD.

At the moment, I usually chuck what I want to watch on a DVD-RW, and to watch on my TV. They look fine, pretty much as good as they did before I DivXed them. So, if I could stream these straight from my server to the PS3, that would just be perfect.

Don't forget, you can encode DivX at any res, so nothing stopping HD divxs being made. My DVD player is officially DivX certified, and it plays back everything I've thrown at it so far (except HD ones) ;)

Now I think about it, actually I use XVID ;) Still, all the DivX players I've tried so far, both owned myself, and played at friends places, have played my XVID files as well, no probs, so if Sony want to actually make this DivX playback usefull, I'd imagine they'd allow the playback of all of them.

Hmmm, well, one would HOPE they'd do that.... these big companies don't always see sense ;)

V1N.
 
Memphis said:
Until Microsoft make their announcement.
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They've had their chance in the past, it should have been done a long time ago. I'm sure they must have been aware that the reason for large Xbox sales at the end of its lifecycle was due to the Media Center capabilities with a little bit of modification.
 
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