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Originally Posted by Marc Peters  Well DivX support is now officially implemented on the PS3. I haven't had a chance to test it, but it's nevertheless a step in the right direction. And now there's another step to a complete transformation into a Media Station - the PlayTV. I know it's been in the running for a while, but it's the first I've heard of it and adds PVR functionality to the PS3. Neat. |
A step in the right direction indeed although they were pipped at the post by Microsoft who released xvid and divx support in their Fall update at the beginning of December (which was a surprise to virtually everyone). Sony did implement a limit of 2GB on the divx files which one suspects is to protect their HD movie interests (they don't want to promote the ripping and downloading of HD films). I managed to successfully stream from my Mac to the PS3 all my divx movies. Also, like the 360, they only made it compatible with movies encoded with Dvix 4.x and above. Given that 4.xx was the first version of divx which supported the ratified MPEG 4 format I am not surprised by that. I also heard from sources that xvid also appears to work for the most part although I haven't personally tried that myself on the PS3, only on the 360 (which works well).