TechRadar has just got back from a meeting with Jérôme Vashist-Rota, founder and VP creative, brand and community of DivX, where we were given an overview of the company's new hi-def iterations of its codec – DivX 7.
The new technology means that you can use DivX to encode your HD files, which can be played on DivX-certified players, and also those devices that use third-party DivX compatibility.
Currently, when it comes to DivX on consoles, it is just Sony who has signed up for the official codec compliance for the PlayStation 3.
TechRadar asked if DivX can see other console manufacturers teaming up with the company in the future, and Rota was quick to respond with regards to the Xbox 360: "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.
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Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Workers at Sega of America, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., have became the first employees at a major North American video-game company to ratify a union contract, a move that may accelerate a burgeoning labor movement in an industry known for widespread instability among its work force.
The contract, ratified Tuesday, covers around 150 people across marketing and other departments at the division’s offices in Southern California. Workers will receive minimum yearly pay increases of 4% in 2024, 3% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026 as well as a number of other benefits, Catalina Brennan-Gatica, a representative for the Communications Workers of America, said in an interview.
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Worst thing that will happen is it will have a lower stock price and ceos won't get extra millions they don't really need. Other than that the company will continue on and ppl will be treated better.
This is AWESOME - Sega seems to be progressive in their new ways - big props to Sega !!!
I thought the 360 has official DivX support?
me too,but anyway if the 360 doesn't have this codec .MS needs to GET HER DONE .i watch all the other codecs on my 360 i don't see no reason to not have this one also ..pulse ITS HD BABY!!
Oh well I just hope that the next firmware update for the PS3 adds full div.x and avi support.
also, the addition of it for the PSP would be a killer move from Sony!
HDaphiles already realized WMV HD (VC-1) is the better codec for higher bit rates. These guys are complaining that Microsoft is adding more support for video formats (I assume they are commenting on Netflix which is also using VC-1), Microsoft has in house codecs that they will obviously support, how could DivX not see that?
Of course they want Microsoft to implement their product... that's their bread and butter... their business depends on these sort of partnerships.
The xbox 360 is primarily a game console and second it provide services like Netflix, and a ton of movies and shows from companies that Microsoft established hard to get partnerships. Microsoft needs to protect those partnerships and ensure that wherever functionality they add do not screw some of those partnerships who were willing to work with them.
Take Sony for example, made the PS3 Primarily a blu-ray player and a linux server... well.. why do you thin they are on 3rd? and as far as game developers are concern the software attach rate is the worst of all.. hurting their game developer partners...
What's going to be next? Allow the xbox 360 to play all PC games... so xbox 360 game developer are not able to sell their games?
Microsoft also needs to care for their revenue streams...and enabling certain features may hurt some side of their business or partners business.
There will be not much of a business if companies run their business that way...
Also as Elven6 commented in the Gamer's Zone... Microsoft have their own Codec which works great... Codecs like WMV HD (VC-1) and technologies like Silverlight... why the hell would they pay royalties for some functionality they already have?