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DivX Making Hollywood Inroads

Posted by michael on from the whose-cuisine-will-reign-supreme dept.

worm eater writes "CNet news reports that DivX is doing its best to become a digital video compression standard, and has been very successful in courting DVD manufacturers to adopt the DivX format. But will that be enough to beat out competing compression methods as a new Hollywood standard? It faces tough competition, such as MPEG-4, RealVideo and Windows Media. Who will win the standards race and what will that mean for the companies that push the various compression methods?"

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  1. easy answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    whoever has the most cripling DRM built in.

  2. Theora by sik0fewl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about Theora? . . . I know.. but maybe someday.

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    I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
  3. Video and Audio Codecs by SnowWolf2003 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There seem to be 3 factors that will eventually determine who wins out:

    1. Quality - If it is compressed it still needs to be good quality
    2. Widespread adoption - If you can't encode and decode it wherever you want to use it, then it won't work for you.
    3. Portability/Restrictions - Finding the right balance between copy protections wanted by the MPAA/RIAA and the portability wanted by the consumers.