Davis Freeberg of Seeking Alpha has the scoop of the imminent DivX certification for the Xbox 360:

DivX (DIVX) followed up Tuesday night’s earnings report with a presentation at the JP Morgan SmMid cap conference. JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster coyly probed Kevin Hell about whether or not we were about to see DivX support on the Xbox 360. The question seemed to catch Hell off guard, and while his initial reaction was enthusiasm, there was something about his tone that suggested that Coster might be onto something.

“Just a minor point here, but there was a recent Microsoft (MSFT) conference where I believe their media extender now incorporates the DivX codec on it, is that correct? Can you confirm that and does that mean we’re soon going to see Xboxes with DivX on them?

Keving Hell - “Yes! that, uh, we’re in discussions with Microsoft on that at this point in time, so I can’t go into any great detail on that. Um that is not a certified, that is not a certified or licensed product at this time.”

Thats a step in the right direction.

DivX support was mentioned in that supposed fake list of fall update contents that did the rounds a few weeks back, so maybe this is coming sooner than you think.

I hope XviD Support will be included, too. I dont need DivX at all, XviD on the other hand would be awesome.

You can play divx on your 360 if you use winamp remote. It works just like the windows media connect thing, except you run winamp remote on your computer instead. It is very nice. I also use it to listen to my 80 gigs of music while I' m at work.

And the advantages of DivX are?

divx isn' t really that great, but a lot of video files are in that format and it is a big hassle to convert them to be able to play them on 360.

This is what PC' s are for.

So this is more about Streaming capabilitys then anything else, I see well i dont think streaming stuff to your xbox is all that great anyway, I mean why not just play it from your Pc instead of wasting your time setting up media extender and all that :\

I, for example, would prefer streaming XviD movies because my PC monitor is kinda small and my TV is much superior in comparison.

Because I have a 46" 1080p TV with 5.1 surround sound connected to my 360. It also sucks watching movies with other people huddled around your computer monitor. GL trying to pwn a chick doing that.

.., Couldn' t watch a movie on a 360, way too noisy and playing dumbed down Xvid movies on my 1080p Projector would defeat the object, I' ll rather wait till the Blue-ray / HD-DVD original and watch it properly.


Also ever heard of a Digital A/V receiver?. With a touch of a button my 360, PS3, PC, Wii, Saturn or Dreamcast displays on either my LCD panel or P/J. Really essential

At least they finally give the option I suppose.

Ever heard of logitech harmony remotes? With the touch of ONE button all of my shit turns on and i' m playing 360, watching a movie, tv, or whatever.

Point is if you dont have your PC hooked up to a beastly display, you can still watch all your torrented DVD-rips and episodes of Heroes on the big screen in the living room.

Not that I download that stuff.