DivX DVD Players Arrive

division21 writes "Geeks rejoice -- DivX Enabled DVD Players finally surface! (With all the goodies: MP3, SVCD, etc.) I remember when MP3 compatability appeared back in the day -- And it looks as though DivX Compatibility could be a real possibility for the mainstream ..." And if you can live without the compression, cherrypi points out this surprisingly favorable review of perhaps the cheapest (under $200) portable DVD player with a built-in screen.

Comments

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[red_dragon]

Shouldn't the article point out that these DivX DVD players aren't the same as the DivX players once sold by Circuit City? Or are they?

divx?

[carpe_noctem]

I thought penny-arcade really put it best:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-06 -18&res=l#

Re:divx?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe Linux should change its name to "OS/2 ;-)" to be supar wittay too.

Re:No thanks.

[Anonymous Coward]

This thing costs ~600$ (CDN),

So... what ARE the exchange rates these days? Is that, like, $50 American?

irony...

[havaloc]

Finally, a DivX player that people will actually want to buy.

Re:Pathetic

[Phosphor3k]

Yeah, these things dont even support SACDs or DVD-Audio.

Coming soon: Valenti's anti-DivX speech.

[Rai]

I guess Valenti will be revising his anti-VCR speech from decades ago to attack this.

man this is confusing

[Anonymous Coward]

we've got VCD, DVD, DeCSS, MPEG4, Dvix, DVIX, DviX, DviX;-), DviX B-], DviX (_)(_)=D, god knows what else!!

I bought a DVD player the other day, it was plastered with acronyms. MP3/DVD/CD/VCD/CDR/CDRW.......

This alphabet soup is pretty damn confusing.

Look, let's cut to the chase. All I want to do is pirate DVDs and trade them with other people like I do MP3 files. Why do I have to learn all this? When will somebody give me Point&Click piracy tools, like Apple's iTunes?

On a side note...

[Necromancyr]

On a side note, the MPAA just had a collective heart attack.

Re:what's the point

[An Onerous Coward]

The point is, now you can put five or six movies onto a single DVD! This is perfect for:

• People who find getting up and changing disks every two hours to be a hardship.
• People who watch DVDs at 4x fast-forward because of their superior data processing skills.
• Anyone who has ever wanted to watch two seasons of The Simpsons in one sitting.
• Disaffected college students.
• 
  
  "Rent a couple of DVDs. . ." Pssh.
  

Re:how much is $600CDN? 50 bucks in real money?

[HorrorIsland]

yer money, presumably US $ is backed by what ?

Daisy Cutters... silly!

There are at least three ways to do VBR audio.

[Kjella]

1) mp4 format
2) ogm format
3) pray MS never fixes the AVI bug that causes VBR mp3s to accidentally work in the first place.

Kjella