DivX certifies six Blu-ray players
Posted on 14/03/08 14:00 by Tim Stork                             
DivX certifies six Blu-ray players

DivX announced that it has granted DivX Certification to six new Blu-ray DVD players from Panasonic, Philips and Denon. The six Blu-ray DVD players will now join the Sony Playstation 3. The Playstation was already certified and was already capable of DivX playback in December 2007. Because of the DivX format consumers can now store and playback over 25 hours of DVD-quality video on a single Blu-ray disc. The 'winners' are the Panasonic DMP-BD30EE, the Philips BDP7220 and four models from Denon.

Analysts expect that DivX will become a standard-feature on Blu-ray devices since it shipped millions of DVD players worldwide. The same analyst also expects that worlwide shipments of Blu-ray players will reach 23 million in 2011.

With more and more players 'winning' DivX certifcation I also expect DivX to become standard feature on Blu-ray players. What do you think?   

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By Break the bank (guest), Friday 14 March 2008 14:15
Now people may start buying them when the prices for the players are HALF what they are today.. can't really buy a stand-alone blue-ray PLAYER for under $400!! What a friggen ripoff.. and most prices have risen 25% after HD-DVD exited the marketplace. That is NOT a good sign or trend.
By EPiPHON3 (guest), Friday 14 March 2008 14:56
You gotta be retarded to put DivX on a BluRay. It's called x264. These companies need to do some research and get with the times.
By DukeNukem, Friday 14 March 2008 15:39
DukeNukemAgreed. They need x264 support to survive. DivX sucks. puke
By CDan, Friday 14 March 2008 16:37
CDanYup, just I want: A $400 SD DIVX player.
By goodhope, Friday 14 March 2008 16:59
Blu-Ray will become mainstream very soon. Guys, prices are high because production costs are still high, because volume of production is low. Don't you remember when DVD's were expensive too? Just a matter of time! I really enjoy the quality!
By hi-Jack (guest), Friday 14 March 2008 18:43
I would suspect for the price these devices are sold, they would combine all media formats we need today and find in players using the same sigma chip as in Blu-ray players including VC-1, m2ts, ts, MKB and other H.264 formats besides DiVX. Divx alons just does not cut it. it is a + to have, but what good is it if you have to purchase another device on the side that supports both divx and all the other formats we use... Also networking and streaming (smb/nfs) should be added. I wonder when the real "all in one" media player ever will come to light. Blu-ray is limited to get all this stuff in while other media players are limited to support Blu-ray because they are kept from the ability and licensing to benefit the "bigger" Blu-ray manufacturers. people are fooled all the time and no one notices that? These are all just half baked solutions to keep "small" progress on all fronts to repeatedly knock money out of people's pockets. No one wants to make the jump and feature all at once as long as it works to do things one step at a time and earn money for years to come adding things step by step making it look innovative, on what could already be done today with some efforts... Just my 2 cents :-) Hi-Jack www.mpcclub.com
By FidelC, Friday 14 March 2008 18:45
FidelCThats what i've been saying all along. They dont even need any hardware changes to support x264. However they may be reluctant to do it because of all the piracy paranoia. -- peeps may ignore BD if DVD9 turns out to be sufficient for high def
By hi-Jack (guest), Friday 14 March 2008 19:12
We share the same opinion then. I actually made this a subject for our weekend news story. Not this only bothers me about the whole Blu-ray and adding support for DivX, also the fact no price drops are made now that the format war is over or the fact BD discs are expensive, again costing more money for the protection they need to implement (and which does not help at all) and so on. They will never understand making things affordeable is the only way to get mass spread like they want. Like printers, sell them cheap to make money on the supplies, like consoles selling with loss to make money on the game titles. blu-ray just is expensive from any angle one can look at it and it does not even close provide value for money. I don't know... I'm still waiting for something that is actually attractive... and Blu-ray /DiVX simply is not the master key I have been waiting for.
By u_n_s97, Friday 14 March 2008 20:09
High Def BD and DivX, oh is it just me who thinks these two do not really fit ? Sure one buys a BD player (for 400 bucks... puke ) to store and view his own compressed low quality DivX stuff, eh ? Sure... Smilie Suspect those 20 bucks players offer that aswell... /ok not from BD media, but sure there are not too many people who waste their BD media for storing DivX movies... at least they must be clowns clown /
By hi-Jack (guest), Saturday 15 March 2008 08:51
Actually, the smp8634/35 players do support external Blu-Ray drives and can play content from it (in some cases to be added but is an announced feature)...
By hi-Jack (guest), Saturday 15 March 2008 10:03
This kind of explains the situation the way I see it... http://www.mpcclub.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=519 (hope it's ok posting a link. Don't have a habit of doing that.)
By Iblis (guest), Saturday 15 March 2008 20:53
Blu-Ray's win has set the HD market back by at least a year.
By u_n_s97, Saturday 15 March 2008 23:44
@Iblis not sure... as long as there are so many people who accept BR players price and alike /400 bucks for a player what a rip off when a PS3 which offers gaming too costs the same and $ony make profit of it... / then unfortunatelly BR team has nothing to worry about. /now as HD-DVD was killed/ They always say this new technology costs so much, but then why had they not claimed the very same when HD- DVD was still alive... Stick Out Tongue Looks like a totally change, now it is an expenisve toy though how many people claimed that how cheap this will be when BR wins the war... Smilie Now these people have got what they deserve... superb, cheap and DivX compatible players... puke
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