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Get Ready For Divx On Xbox

Posted by timothy on from the 200-dollars dept.

donnacha points to this ZDNet story which says that hackers have built a Divx player for Xbox. "As previously discussed ( Divx - The Real Xbox Killer App), the ability to play reasonably high-quality films, speedily burned onto inexpensive CDR media, is going to make (modded) Xbox ownership a far more attractive proposition. This will take Divx beyond the desktops of those with broadband connections and into the living rooms of those who don't own computers. Expect to see a resurgence of Xbox sales and much confusion in MS as to whether or not this is a good thing."

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  1. Exactly.. Plus XBox has no games. Useless system. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    So quit throwing your money at the evil empire already and support true console systems. Go buy a PS2 or a GameCube and let MiscroSoft rot in hell where they belong.

  2. "a resurgence in XBox sales"??? by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 2, Troll

    Don't you mean a "surgence"?

    Thanks to DivX, they'll sell 5 more X-Boxes this month.

    - A.P.

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  3. No, I'm Never Wrong. by donnacha · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's great, but you're very wrong...(I can get it on VHS or, perhaps, even VCD.)

    Regardless of format, illegal supply chains, both formal and informal, exist for content, whether that be games, music or films.

    I am suggesting that the chains that currently make it possible for you to buy videos and VCDs will increasingly gear their customers towards Divx, both in the interests of simplifying and speeding their production process, lowering their costs, expanding their market and introducing a wider range of products to the same customers (games and music).

    I also have no doubt that $100 DVD players with Divx capability will soon start entering the market and that many people will choose to buy a Divx of, say, Spiderman at the "disposable" cost of $3 rather than buy a higher-quality pirate DVD for $8. Divx pirates will also be more widely available, as CD burners will remain considerably cheaper that DVD burners for quite some time.