PS3 Gets DivX & Blu-ray Upgrade December 21, 2007
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The PS3 is finally starting to shape up as a true next-gen console and home entertainment box with today’s addition of support for the DivX format – the most popular compression technology used for Web-based video.
It was promised last month and now it’s here for Christmas, allowing us all to use the PS3 for watching those compressed TV shows and movies we downloaded off the Web. The support comes as part of the new Version 2.1 firmware update, which will allow owners to stream DivX files from their PCs to the PS3 via its Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) technology. In addition to DivX support, the PS3 now supports videos in VC-1 format, including WMV content.
The other key enhancement has been the upgrade of the Blu-ray software to Blu-ray Disc (BD) Profile 1.1, making it one of the first players capable of supporting advanced features like secondary video and audio decoders for picture-in-picture viewing and interactive audio commentary.
The Xbox 360 is expected to get DivX support too although Sony gets the gold medal for being first. [UPDATE: I'm wrong, Xbox snatched DivX gold a few weeks ago - thanks for the heads-up Ruler, Directhex]
As we reported, Sony also launched the 3.80 firmware for the PSP, bringing support for more than 22,000 Internet radio stations via Wi-Fi.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
What are you talking about? Xbox 360 has divx/ xvid support for weeks already!!!
The 360 got Divx playback on December 4th.
I've already been watching DivX movies on my Xbox 360 for weeks!
Yeh like the guys said, that's a load of rubbish. The 360 is playing the xvid/divx content back like a beast. Although still not as good in standard def as a modded xbox with xbox media center on it. :p
And before DivX support was had on the 360, I was using Transcode across Media Center.
Still, you've got to admire Sony for trying...
lol, just read the article and I knew there would be an uproar for crediting PS3 for being first. Like balls they were:P Anyway, the next one will be the race to .mkv support which is what high def content from the net is encoded nowadays. any bets?