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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. Nothing new here by SiliconEntity · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've had a DivX DVD player for years. I got it cheap from CompUSA after DivX went out of business.

    Oh, thatDivX...

    Never mind.

  2. Re:DivX SVCD? by Jon+Chatow · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Is the DivX format any better quality than SVCD?

    Yes, quite noticably so.

    nothing will ever provide the DD 5.1, DTS, and 6.1(7.1???) sound quality of real DVDs

    Except, oh, Ogg Vorbis. It supports up to 256 channels (IIRC), and my decoder understands it having lots of channels, and sends them off to my speaker system just fine. Thus my rips have AC3 as well as multi- & dual-channel Ogg Vorbis for the audio tracks.

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    James F.