Topic: Official: DivX Technology to be Added to PLAYSTATION 3 (Read 140 times)

cerealkillajme · « **on:** November 13, 2007, 12:35:00 PM »

Good news for Sony. Glad to see someone was smart enough to add DivX into their system. Hopefully it will take off and M$ will be left kicking themselves thinking they should have just let us have our DivX.

grim_d · « **Reply #1 on:** November 13, 2007, 12:48:00 PM »

i dont understand the big deal with divx? if i have something to watch i buy the dvd then put it in my dvd player.

do people really have THAT many homemade movies..hmm.

throwingks · « **Reply #2 on:** November 13, 2007, 01:06:00 PM »

QUOTE(grim_d @ Nov 13 2007, 03:24 PM)

i dont understand the big deal with divx? if i have something to watch i buy the dvd then put it in my dvd player.

do people really have THAT many homemade movies..hmm.

People may or may not have obtained the movies the right way. Both Microsoft and Sony are in the business of making money. If there is a market for streaming Divx, then 1 of them will make it happen. Now, Microsoft has to weigh the profits vs. cost of this, and they will make a decision too.

badbrains · « **Reply #3 on:** November 13, 2007, 03:54:00 PM »

This is awesome. Now if only M$ gets it together and supports this as well.

lordsnipe · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2007, 04:04:00 PM »

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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.

I thought the PS3 with it's almighty and superior Blu-Ray didn't need compression

Kamasutra318 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2007, 08:40:00 PM »

I've already moved on to the superior H.264, but it's good to see that I'll be able to play some of my older stuff without transcoding. I mostly used Xvid though, so I hope the decoder is optimized for both.

bucko · « **Reply #6 on:** November 14, 2007, 11:50:00 AM »

I always thought if Divx was allowed it would be some type of downloadable content because don't Divx take license fees of every device that has the divx logo/software on them?

Sony must be paying them quite a bit to support this, wonder how MS will deal with it.

twistedsymphony · « **Reply #7 on:** November 14, 2007, 03:09:00 PM »

QUOTE(bucko @ Nov 14 2007, 02:26 PM)

...Sony must be paying them quite a bit to support this, wonder how MS will deal with it.

Not necessarily, if Sony supports Divx that improves Divx's install base which means more people will use it for other things.

Also I think the license is only required for encoding... not decoding, I could be wrong though (I don't use it so I wouldn't know)

Martinchris23 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 14, 2007, 04:11:00 PM »

Here's hoping that MS take their thumb outta their arse and do likewise with the 360.

ludacrisvp · « **Reply #9 on:** November 16, 2007, 04:27:00 AM »

If I remember correctly wasn't DIVX made from modifying Microsoft's version of the MPEG-4 codec?
I may be wrong but I thought I heard that somewhere and that is one reason Microsoft is very anti-DIVX.

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