DivX Support For Blu-ray Players Grows March 18, 2008

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Now that Blu-ray has won the high-def format war, vendors are keen to cram as much technology support into their Blu-ray players as possible.

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DivX support has been added to many decent DVD players and now the Blu-ray camp are keen to add it too with Philips and Panasonic adding it to their new Blu-ray spinners. DivX have said that Denon will also be adding to its four new upscaling DVD players. DivX is the most popular video compression technology used for shrinking movies into more manageable sizes for use online.

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"The end of the format war creates more opportunity for Blu-ray products," said In-Stat Principal Analyst, Michelle Abraham, Converged Markets & Technologies, Multimedia. "In-Stat expects worldwide shipments of Blu-ray players to reach 23 million in 2011. DivX is well-positioned to become a standard feature on Blu-ray devices, just as it has shipped in millions of DVD players worldwide."

The new DivX-supported players are the Panasonic DMP-BD30EE (Blu-ray), Philips BDP7200 (Blu-ray) and the Denon DVD-2500BTC1B, DVD-3800BDC1B, DVD-3800BDSP and DVD-2500BTSP (DVD).

DivX recently added support for the PS3.-Martin Lynch

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Comments

Some interesting pionts made, however i recieved an email from Panasonic that their BD-30 WILL not have the Divx capability here in UK!
Apart from the costly Denon are their any other confirmed Blu Ray players the will have the Divx function in UK...?

Regards

posted-by scott mardell | April 14, 2008 2:19 PM

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