Your PlayStation 3? That's DivX certified. Your Xbox 360? Not so much. And the folks at DivX are kind of bummed about that. It's like DivX wants Microsoft to wear its letterman jacket to fully prove that they're dating.
"Currently, Microsoft does support DivX, which is fantastic, but the company has brought in some third-party support for the Xbox 360, and we are not very happy with that," DivX VP of creative, brand and community Jerome Vashist-Rota told TechRadar.
"When it comes to DivX branding, we have had a hard time with Microsoft. Obviously we would love for some sort of partnership to happen."
Of course, Microsoft does not need this certification, but DivX insists that both sides will benefit:
"It's all about branding," says Rota. "And branding can work both ways, so it is not just us losing out with the Xbox 360's lack of official certification."
I don't think DivX is as big as it used to be, and I think that Microsoft knows that. Good luck with this one, DivX.
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5:30 PM on 01.19.2009
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Most importantly, the most used four letter word on the web. PORN.
well yea everyone wants to be a part of the winning team. I mean shit if M$ was doing horrible would Divx still want to be a part of it?
Sucks for you, maybe they should have tried harder in the beginning when M$ came to them and THEY turned them down.
ha
Is the "$" really necessary? I suppose all other businesses are giving their products away for free because it's fun and Microsoft is the only fucking company that is out for a profit?
More important question for MS: when will they fully support x264? People like to stream their HD content without having to transcode/encode/load them in a program before they can play them you know?
I really wish theyd put more effort into these 'extra' features of the consoles, if theyre gonna bother at all. PS3 aint too bad, i guess, but the 360 is a pain for anything other than games. And then theres the hard drive space issue.
Agreed. All it took for me to hook up my PC to my HDTV was buying a second HDMI cable. And now I can watch every format I want in every resolution that I like.
Btw, Gomplayer beats the shit out of VLC fuck you all you open source pussies. South Korean software ftw.
By ME putting the $ i didn't mean anything negative by it, in fact, its more of a compliment. Nothing wrong with making money
No, thanks.
I have well over 100 gigs of movies, tv shows, and music on my PC, and all of it is easily streamed with 2 or 3 button presses...The only real problem is that it won't run mkv files, so I have everything in avi format.
I can't speak to the PS3s ease of use in this area, but the 360 is a very simple set up to run media from my PC to my TV...