Ooh, a DVD player that can play divx movies. I had no idea such a thing existed!
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I remember seeing DivX movies at Circuit City, thinking they were a great deal at $3 to $5 a movie. Then I read you can only watch them once with a specific player that needed to be connected to a telephone line, and that you would have to pay another $3 to $5 to watch it again, and that you’d have to watch the movies within a 48 hour period, and judging by the number of times I’ve seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I would be short $300. I also read that the major investors behind DivX was Circuit City itself and a group of Hollywood lawyers.
Hmm, I did not realize that there was the possibility of a Circuit City conspiracy behind Divx.
I was sort of thinking, hypothetically speaking of course, that if one had downloaded some movies in divx format and wanted to view them on one’s tv instead of one’s computer, such a device might facilitate that process.
But I don’t know much about divx so I’m not sure…
Yeah, I think it’ll work. The technology behind the DivX discs sold at Circuit City was used in the compressing of the movie files you can download off the ‘net. Most higher end DVD players can play VCDs, mostly popular in Asia, and VCD movies are generally composed of DivX formated movie files. I think.
OK, that makes sense.
I was having an episode of gadget envy, but there are so many other things I’d buy before getting a new dvd player, like an ipod…or a digital camera…
One of you is thinking of the original divx the propriety format from circuit city which was basically disposable rental movies with appropriate enabled hardware, the other of you is thinking of the mpeg4 based compression codec
Fellals… Divx on the TV is not that hard. Go buy a graphics card for your computer that had video output (S-Video is probably better). I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 ($150) and it works like a dream.