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PS3 Gets DivX Support, Coming Soon to Xbox 360

Posted by Zonk on

Mpegged writes "The popular DivX video codec will soon be supported on the PlayStation 3 via a future firmware update. DivX CEO Kevin Hell also hinted that support is coming to the 360 as well. 'During the SMid Cap conference call with investment firm JP Morgan, Hell was asked if the recent deal that will see DivX codecs shipped with new versions of Microsoft's standalone Media Center Extenders means that such support will also be arriving on the Xbox 360. "Yes!" was his immediate reply, although he quickly qualified that confirmation with a disclaimer that the deal was still in the negotiation process and had not yet been finalized.'"

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  1. And here I am.. by xtracto · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shit... and here I am with my Wii accessing Opera and trying to see youtube videos with crappy quality and choppy.

    I guess the worst happened as the Wii isn't really good for anything, not games nor media center... none of the 7 games I own really make me play it any more (Zelda, Red Steel, Paper Mario, MonkeyBall, WiiSports, WiiPlay, Excite Truck)... and the prospects are not really nice (Mario galaxy??? yaawn).

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    1. Re:And here I am.. by Floritard · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Those are all pretty boring games you have honestly. Pickup Resident Evil 4 and Metroid. As for Super Mario Galaxy, well if you're not anxious to play the game starring Nintendo's main mascot in what is so far critically and most probably soon commerically his best game in years, then what exactly did you buy a Wii for in the first place?

    2. Re:And here I am.. by Burpmaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I don't mean to troll, but you're absolutely begging for this comment. Seriously, you bought Monkey Ball and even Red Steel? You appear to be bitter about spending good money for crap games and now you don't want to spend any more money on the system responsible even if the game is good.

      If the Wii is so worthless, then can you name one system that has had a better game lineup in its first year? (Bonus points if it's not a Nintendo system.) The Wii has Zelda (as a launch title), two Mario platformers, and the Virtual Console lineup. Yeah, you're bored of two of those and you've dismissed the third (a game with the highest average on Metacritic, 97, out of all current-generation consoles). But the question still remains, what other console has offered you a better first-year experience?

  2. Too little.... by Seakip18 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too late. I just got mythTv setup and running and I like it a helluva a lot better than the Xbox360 and the Windows MCE I had on a virtual machine with transcoder. I'm now looking at a tuner card to get OTA shows. They are some big problems such as dealing with overscans and the resolutions. But I'm a lot more optimistic about OOS overcoming this than Microsoft eventually implementing a fully-functional media frontend with the xbox360.

    One more benefit is that my MediaCenter is actually quieter than the Xbox360(I own a 360, so take that as you will). Not sure about the PS3.

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