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LJR · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 02:15 PM

Hi Marc,

Interesting read.

DivX Inc made an announcement on the 13th November in which they stated they had struck up a partnership deal with Sony to bring DivX support to the PS3 'in the near future'. This still leaves the question of XVID support open though.

From a media center perspective it's probably worth noting that the PS3 does natively support the video formats MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (PS, TS), MPEG-4 SP, and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and since FW 1.80 which introduced DLNA to allow media server connectivity and playing (it supports DLNA player not server). The problem of ripping the DVD to a compatible format can be resolved using a utility such as VOB2MPG, but the PS3 won't rip a DVD to format it can read from its HDD, which I think is the feature that you were saying should be there (and very neat it would be too).

I'd also point out that the with the sunsetting of the 60GB variant in the EU and the introduction of the single SKU 40GB variant the new PS3 will not be able to play SACD's, nor will it have the in-built memory card slots - both of which the 60GB variants did. Not important to many, but important to some.

I think the PS3 is making the right steps to becoming the media center your article indicates it could be, but for sure it's not quite there yet.