DivX certifies six Blu-ray players

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.

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.

Agreed. They need x264 support to survive. DivX sucks. :r

Yup, just I want: A $400 SD DIVX player.

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!

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

Thats 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

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.

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... :r ) to store and view his own compressed low quality DivX stuff, eh ? Sure... 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 :+ /

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)...

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.)

Blu-Ray's win has set the HD market back by at least a year.

@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... 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... Now these people have got what they deserve... superb, cheap and DivX compatible players... :r

I don't think that being divx certified can be anything but a plus point.
I regularly use my pioneer dvd drive to play divx discs, so what if its not 1080, I'd certainly purchase a divx certified player over a non-certified player, so I can then move the pioneer box to the bedroom.
HD piracy/ripping is rife, it's no wonder manufacturers are not adding HD format compatibility. I'm sure there will be some small asian companies producing them in time, but for now, divx addition sells me a player.

A USB port with DIVX capability would make the player capable of displaying all options. DIVX capability is NEVER retarded, except for the uninformed smucks who think HD is the end all.

DivX now supports a hi def format.......and what a combo BD/DivX.... saves lots of space getting 25hrs+ on a BD in DivX HD. The clowns are the people that don't look up all the info on stuff.