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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. competition from realvideo? by heXXXen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you're kidding, right?

  2. What are you smoking? by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 0, Redundant
    It faces tough competition, such as MPEG-4, RealVideo and Windows Media

    DivX is MPEG-4, you kook! Try learning a bit about a topic before spouting nonsense over it.

    As for RealVideo, they are aiming for streaming, which means low bandwidth consumption, which means a trade-off of quality in favor of small size. They are not interested in displacing MPEG-2.

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