Playstation 3 to support DivX & play AVI files
November 13 Carl Nelson
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FINALLY! As good as the Playstation 3’s multimedia capabilities are, it’s mostly a waste of time if they don’t support the format used by 99.9% of people who record and watch video - DivX
DivX announced today that a future firmware update will add full DivX certification to the Playstation 3. This is a MAJOR coup for Sony; both consoles have good multimedia capabilities (PS3’s is superior in most ways) but really, how many people have media in the formats supported by them? As good as MP4-AVC is, and WMV, most people attain their media in the Xvid/DivX formats. Transcoding was a solution, but not a very good one as image quality is always lost in real-time transcoding, and pre-formating video files takes a long time. Until support of DivX was added, the media capabilities of both systems were pretty much wasted.
Now the Playstation 3 receives another reason to be considered for purchase (we’re still waiting on some good exclusive games though).
Filed under: Video Game Hardware
Tags: Firmware Updates, Multimedia, Playstation 3, Sony
about time…geez i have been waiting for this. i have over 400 gb of divx movies and shows and it is a pain when transcoding sometimes works and sometimes doesnt. thank GOD and Sony
YOU’RE WELCOME
i wonder how long until this happens…
they still have not even given everyone
in game xmb
[...] as Main and High profile (also known as h.264). In a big story last week, it was announced that the PS3 would soon be supporting the DivX codec, through the AVI file container. This will be the first time a non-modified console supports this highly popular format. [...]