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First Certified DivX/DVD Player Released

Posted by timothy on from the catch-and-press-release dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this article, a company named KiSS Technology announced at CeBit that they are releasing the first certified DivX DVD players, the DP-450 and DP-500! They are supposed to be able to playback ALL versions of DivX content and digital rights management. I'm completely stoked on this, I would buy one of these in a snap. This could make the purchase of dvd burners slow down in my opinion." (And Yes, it plays Ogg Vorbis, too.) Ebay imports, anyone?

2 of 272 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Ok, I'll bite. by igotmybfg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. You'll download movies in DivX format, burn them onto CDR, and play those on this uber-player.

  2. Re:Ok, I'll bite. by jilles · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In addition to the obvious convenience for e.g. Kazaa users, one could use this as a cheap alternative to creating dvd's from your homemovies. Just convert your homemovies to divx, burn them on a cheap cdr (as opposed to still very expensive dvdrs) and you have nice cheap good quality video that you can watch on your vcr.

    Second idea: cd companies could burn a divx video on along with the sound on a multisession cd. Should play just fine in any cd player and owners of PCs/Macs/Whatever or this cool device get a little extra.

    There's plenty of legal uses for this device. I want one even though I don't own a video camera :-).

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    Jilles