Microsoft Is Working To Add Divx To Xbox 360

It has just been confirmed, that Microsoft is currently working with Divx, Inc. to bring the popular Divx MPEG-4 video format to the Xbox 360. However, Microsoft also said that this Divx project for Xbox 360 is currently not in their high priority list. Right now, an unmodded Xbox 360 can only support video formats such as : WMV, HD WMV, H.264 and non Divx MPEG-4.

Kevin Hell, Divx, Inc.'s CEO said that Microsoft has more restrictions and requirements surrounding any software that runs on it's Xbox 360 than Sony with it's Playstation 3, so the Xbox 360 Divx project is on a lot slower pace compared to it's Playstation 3 brother.

Hell also said that with the latest 2.00 firmware update, the Divx video format support has already been partially implemented on Playstation 3, and the full Divx support will come with the next Playstation 3 firmware update. However on Xbox 360, the release date for the Divx support is still unknown.

[Hapimeses]

Is it just me, or does Kevin Hell have a videogame/comic book name? I mean, really, who's named 'Hell'?

That aside, this confirms pretty much what we had already guessed.

[anh_duong]

who the hell is he?

[solidt12]

Yeah who in the Hell is Hell?

[PiTCHBLaCK]

Yeah who is Hell?...LOL, there is a town in the USA that is called: Hell.

[Mr_Kuwabara]

Hmm he must live in Hell's Kitchen, Brooklyn. lol

[peksi]

That really made me laugh! Bubbles to all of you Hell spawns.

[SlippyMadFrog]

I realy need DivX playback on my xbox360. I wonder why this didn't happen a while ago?

[the worst]

800 ms points

[YungStubS]

I really hope this Divx move comes through. I would love to be able to stream AVI files properly.

[Mu5afir]

I thought the USB drives are "read" only, so other then burning videos to dvds etc.. how exactly are people going to be able to play the content?

[lawman1108]

What's the big deal?

[ravinash]

I remember just a few days ago there was an announcement that Sony had setup the same deal for the PS3 and everyone was saying its because they want to pirate HD-DVDs or something.
I can only imagine what they be saying about this.

[Hapimeses]

'Why was this article mapped as a PS3 topic?'
Well, the article includes information about when DivX comes to PS3, so it makes sense to me to include the article as a PS3 topic as well.

[ravinash]

I've probably spent too much time on this site this morning and all the flaming here has got me paranoid.

[ruibing]

What I remember are negative comments from people bashing the feature or simply saying its following in the footsteps of the 360.

[titntin]

"Kevin Hell, Divx, Inc.’s CEO said that Microsoft has more restrictions and requirements surrounding any software that runs on it’s Xbox 360 than Sony with it’s Playstation 3, so the Xbox 360 Divx project is on a lot slower pace compared to it’s Playstation 3 brother"

..Or in other words. We've only just learned that its coming for PS3, so we've only just started to copy the move!

I like the 360, and love playing its games, but I would be far happier to see it innovate, rather than constantly immitate. Copying the other guys moves is dull - forget buzz contollers, eye camera or Wii controls, come up with a good idea of your own for goodsakes! :)IMHO! :)

[predator]

acheivemnts and live, i think there pretty big ideas of their own, dont u?

[Heaven_Or_Hell]

That's right ! Bubble 4u

[FordGTGuy]

is imitation? WTF?

[Bnet343]

they knew people wanted this from the beginning. The last dashboard update, people wanted DivX support, but then they just added some other crap codec thing.

[Malkier]

Microsoft said thay were going to be adding DivX a long time ago, this is not new news, they are not copying. Both Sony and Microsoft are doing the same move and both would have had this in the planning stage for a long time.

[Vojkan]

AGAIN MICROSOFT COPY CATS FROM SONY! Pathetic fool! DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
JUST DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[solidt12]

Yeah but in the end, everyone copies from one another. I don't care if you copy just improve on what you are copying and I am fine with that. Don't just steal ideas come up with something that makes the idea better.

[power of Green]

Your PS3 was designed in the 360's image everything it does and will do is because it has been popular and or successful on the 360.

PS3 has

Themes
HDD
Online multi player
Music
IPTV
Video store
SKU
Guide/interface
Mutli tasking, the same as the 360
PSN
Acheivemnts

#4 Should thank MSFT for designing the PS3 for Sony and should stop trying to mask the obvious.

#4 post is moronic... MSFT is leading the way and everybodies playing catch up.

[Skerj]

PS3 has

Themes - Were on PSP first
HDD - Was on the PS2 as well but wasn't standard but WAS standard in the PSX
Online multi player - PS2 as well
Music - From the PS1
IPTV - Is that out yet on the 360? Besides this was said to be coming before the 360 even came out due to the Location Free abilities already on the PSP.
Video store - I'll give you that one even though they were going to extend the Connect service anyway.
SKU - Uh yeah. ..
Guide/interface - XMB is from the PSX
Mutli tasking, the same as the 360 - Refer to the XMB and PSX
PSN - I'll give you that one
Acheivemnts - Ratchet and Clank did it first with Skill Points, and maybe other games but yeah you can have that.

In any case all of the things you're touting Sony got from MS, the Dreamcast did first and other systems before that. So MS wasn't that original hell look at the Xbox controller. Solidt was right, everyone copies from one another and no matter what spin you try you can't deny that. That said I'm glad MS is getting off their ass to add Divx support, although the 360 missed its chance to be my media center it's still good for everyone else.

[Lionsguard]

You must have like photoshopped (or even real!) naked posters of Bill Gates all over your room don't you PoG? Geeze go jerk to your master even more. The 360 should thank the PS2, The PS2 should thank um..the PS1 but the PS1 should thank the before after them and on and on until finally we should thank all the cavemen scratching pictures on the wall. You act as if MS has been creating systems since the Big Bang. Calm down no one gives a flying F what MS does go get laid or something geeze all I hear from you is how great and all mighty the Microsoft schlong is when they do nothing but rape you with shoddy products that require constant repair and charge you fees for every feature or service they provide you.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

All those thing were being done on a Windows PC first, MS just copied what they already do over to the 360 (seem to forgot that part didn't ya?). Sony fans love to claim things first but it all comes from a little thing called Pong and Atari and then mastered by Nintendo. Sony and MS are late to the party, Sony a little later because before Sony even shat their first game, MS was doing PC games <---- Slap. Every format in the world starts on a PC even all those games PS3 fans enjoy so much. So yeah, everything Sony does is just a copy/clone of MS Windows. Now what MS copies from other OS is another story.

[rofldings]

Jason 360:

Actually MS just stole all that sh!t from Apple. They have never made/thoughtup anything by themselves.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

You just seemed to have skiped the last part of what i said didn't you? Did you only read the first few lines before tqking your glasses off?

[macalatus]

@Jason,

Let me see, you went from the beginnings of video games, to PC, PC gaming...and ultimately you said "every format in the world starts on a PC even all those games PS3 fans enjoy so much". I will be honest with you but you got me all lost in that, um, history lecture of yours. I'm still confused with your "every format...starts on the pc". So, betamax, cartridge based games, ENIAC, cassette tapes...all started on the PC?!? Bullsh!t!!

But the funniest one would be how you said that MS copying Apple is a different story all together when your, um, bullsh!t history lesson is nothing more but a bunch of "different stories altogether" pieced together by your weird a$$ logic and weird a$$ reasoning.

[blacsheep]

y does microsoft feel the need to copy apple or sony?
divx aint even begun on xbox360 this news was just put out because of the announcement of the sony partnership yestaday, so ms have gone sh!t an put this out. oh yeh as im talking about copying microsoft 'scene it' blatant buzz rip-off and in retaliation to playstation home microsoft are talking to the second life developers.
apple and sony innovate microsoft immitate.
360 has such a high failure rate due to the fact it rushed to get out before sonys ps3 this shows fear because they then just abandonned the origional xbox,, and now gradually theyve added hdmi which they said origionally wasnt needed,i truly believe theres some amazing games on the 360 but please microsoft get some good staff with their own ideas and gain alot more respect,people are gonna mention xbox live but couldnt be done on the pc already? dont flame its a genuine question hence the question mark

[SlippyMadFrog]

I think you're a bit harsh on Msoft regarding the move to get DivX. I believe Msoft and Sony where thinking long ago about Divx but Sony implemented it first.
Anyway, who cares, Divx is Divx and it's great to have

[Bnet343]

but they were skeptical about it because basically it would be helping out pirates watched torrented movies on their Xbox 360. So I think it's more of s response.

[MythSquare]

who the hell had doubts that this couldn't have happened???

[Bathyj]

How many times do I have to say it?

Sony acts, M$ reacts.

Anyway, its all good, we should all have DivX. If a $50DVD can have it why not and expensive console.

[FordGTGuy]

using Windows Media Extender. Who Reacted now?

[Bathyj]

You reacted to me. See how that works.

And were not talking about streaming here, and I'm not even just talking about DivX.

[mark09]

you can convert while streaming with tversity but having it take up little memory on the harddrive while still playing in beautiful quality is a blessing to have.

[power of Green]

I Got dissagree's because you idiots know its true. PS3 would be nothing without MSFT it would be just another oldschool 5th generation JAP concept with 7th generation hardware.

You dissagree because you PS3 fan fucs get updates adding what MSFT has done every month knowing you'll get what MSFT came (or what is coming) up with in the future but don't wan't to be told you're contradicting youselfs while your bitter asses vent on MSFT.

[MythSquare]

"it would be just another oldschool 5th generation JAP concept with 7th generation hardware."
who knows? but may be you're right about this competition rules the progress.-)

[Biphter]

What exactly is an "oldschool 5th Generation JAP concept with 7th generation hardware"?

Actually don't bother, I think its a cryptic description of how PS3 doesn't have the Xbox Live service, Which of course makes it only 6th gen, right?

*Sigh*

[Wedged]

I like the part about 'next Playstation 3 firmware update' :-)

[Biphter]

They kinda gave it away there ;)

[power of Green]

LOL more dissagree's while Sony sits back waiting for others to inovate for them not talking about DivX as if thats a dreamed up Idea by Sony(HDMI isn't something that was brained stormed and tested either by these companoes).

Whats next Video marketplace? then storing old games on the HDD?. MSFT can no longer boast about what they're doing because they can't use what they come with as selling points for long with Sony breathing down their necks.

Its no wonder MSFT won't reveal what they have in the update once Sony hears about it they hurry up and try to implement it first.

[Biphter]

Video Marketplace concept copied from iTunes

Downloadable xbox games copied from Sony downloadable PS1 games

HDMI is just a standard.

Everyone copies everyone everyday, thats how we evolve.

Whats with all this MSFT crap? why not just be normal and say Microsoft. Its like when Sony fanboys say SNE. Truly weird.

[power of Green]

I Mean some of the things Sony is implementing are not even time tested or proven features. Something that works and has proven itself over a couple of generations is fine but to sit back in "one generation" thats "not even two years old" is pathetic. Sony Sitting back like the PS3's not done rather then getting updates waiting for MSFT to see what works without taking risk. Divx is not an innovation its an add-on.

[Lionsguard]

Jesus man this thread is really nothing but you and the sound of "Slurp slurp slurp, oh Mr. GATES!!" go to sleep we don't care, you sound so scared trying to prove something when no one gives a sh!t. You're only making yourself look more like a dumbass baby. Go ahead and disagree with me because you know it's true.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Your like a shadow troll, you pop out of the shadows to give a pro Sony quote then step back and claim to play the middle. So if he slurps on MSs d**k you go around trying to slurp on everyones. (like a ho train choo choo!)

[FPS nut]

Ohhhhhhh snap! "the ho train" that was funny as hell CHOO CHOO! shadow troll? thats a new one. What about Stealth Troll?

[Lionsguard]

Wtf are you talking about dude, I admit I am Pro-Sony I never hid it. But I can admit when they make their mistakes, such as their big talk at E3 2005, all their outrageous claims and high PS3 price at launch. The difference is that people like you and PoG enjoy being raped in the ass and just overlook it. You know what that is called? "Battered Wife Syndrome"

[stony419]

ok i own a 360 and would say that the 360 has better software out right now, but for godsakes drop the f*in restrictions and regulations and just let the people hack and mod what they want. Every type of video format should be supported on all systems, if computers can do it, so should these super powerful consoles. I hate MS, they always put restrictions and copyrights on every damn thing they produce. Looks like this my be the straw that forces me to buy a ps3 just so I can have certain perks the MS is just to damn stuck up to conform to.

And you all arguing about who copied who and blah blah, everything copied pong, the first real motion video game. Everyone copies each other, how do you think company's have the chance to compete? The Wii is even a copy of previous virtual reality systems in the arcade, they just brought it home. That's the way the world works people! But anyways, like EA, Dyack, David Jaffe, and many others have said,"One console is the future!"

[Antiomo]

Ps3 has blu-ray... lets add hd-dvd
Ps3 has hdmi ... lets add hdmi
Ps3 will have divx x lets add it also

I can smell an internal HD coming soon xbox version 2.5

[jackfatal]

what ever ps3 do 360 do after them!!
HDMI change the wireless the black color 360 and now DivX

just 2 days ago ps3 announced that it will have DivX coming in 2008 and now i hear 360 doing the same!!

this shows how in original MS is!! they always just follow ps3 path because they know its the best path!! and they can never make new moves by them selfs!

[donscrillinger]

hopefully they will work this deal out cuz this would be pretty nice

[Real gamer 4 life]

microsoft is known for this, they always copy other companies ideas. they are also known for monopolizing the competition. that is why i dont like that company, because they dont like competition they wanna rule the market. If an american company would had released a system i wished it would have been appple instead. All microsoft does is copy, one example of this is the zune. the zune is a rip off ipod.

[OMG 360 RUL3Z0RZ FTW]

Yes MS copies their competition in many cases. Xerox/Apple/MS GUI copying, iPod/Zune copying, OS-X/Compiz/Aero copying, ad nauseum...

But as far as adding Divx support is concerned, this is just a natural progression in the console/media-center evolution. Divx has been around for a very long time and is one of the standards for MPEG-4 encoding, so if MS wants to bring video playback to their customers, why wouldn't they include Divx? It really isn't a question of whether or not Sony implemented this as well. If they hadn't, MS would probably add Divx support anyway because that is what I and the rest of their customers would expect from a media-center.

[THE_JUDGE]

their system reliable unstead of updating them. That way, years from now there will be systems to update.

[Stray_Wulf]

ps3 came out in a black color and with HDMI, 360 decides to have an elite model with hdmi and is black. ps3 comes out with built in blu-ray, 360 decides to sell an hd-dvd add-on. ps3 states they will add DivX to the system, 360 wants to do that too. Lol im not a fanboy, i just think its funny the way microsoft works. ... of course, let the immature fanboy comments begin :)

[TrenchaunT]

HURRY UP....
But what I really want is Xvid.

[DZNetworks]

.1 - I can already play DivX on my Xbox 360
using Windows Media Extender. Who Reacted now?>>

Its still just being routed through your pc first though.

[Grown Folks Talk]

Isn't that the point? Getting the content to a place it isn't already available? If you have actual DivX discs, then I am going to @SSume that you already have a dvd player capable of playing them. The majority of the people clammoring for this probably have files stored on a hard drive which they want to route to the 360/PS3.

[razer]

The console has been out for 2 years, there is no freakin excuse to drag your feet on this. Whichever console has it first get's the center of my entertainment center.. I am sick of transcoding on the 360 and I haven't even messed with getting transconding on the PS3 working.. GET IT DONE MS.. If Sony does it first I won't be looking back.. Both systems should of supported Xvid/Divx and .mkv containter types when they launched.

PS: To all the n00bs who say that MS is copying Sony need to realize there has been continual disussion on this between the community and MS a year before the PS3 even launched.. If anything, Sony got wind of MS having the support and they jumped on the bandwagon..

[wind_dragon]

Ok, whos been in the console business the longest? whos been in the business market the longest? who do u think influenced who?! True i've been asking for AVI support on my PS3 since i bought it, but MS has always followed in Sony's footsteps. besides Live i haven't seen anything new from MS. HELL! they need to fix that S***ty hardware then come back to me with an update.

[jax07]

Your an idiot like none the world has ever seen. You obviously have some sort of animosity towards the Japanese because in several post you mention the PS3 being a "Jap" this and that. There is no problem with supporting an American product but you are extreme. Besides it makes no sense to say that Sony copies Microsoft and that the PS3 wouldnt be anything without it. I dont know if you didnt see the argument against your stupid claim but Skerj outlined all of the features that Playstation supposedly copied featured in much earlier systems. I dont blame you for ignoring them though because 3rd grade retards like you cannot help it. The comments you make are so absurd, the way you blasat Sony you think you have a green dildo in your a$$.

[JasonXE]

divx files since last year when transcode 360 came out. Not a big deal for me.

[jax07]

True gamers unite. Yes that was corny but I mean it. There are people on this site that want talk about games they think are awesome and share the experience with everyone else. Then you have monsterous trolls like the PowerofNotBeingAble to read and TheTart. They are part of a phenomenon called cheerleading. They and Sony fan girls go back and forth in stupid little b#tch fights about what systems games have better lighting and who sells more games or system neither of which are important as long as you get the game that you want and you like it. Maybe I missed out when Sony and Microsoft started recruiting or something because I dont get this fanboy sh&t.

[thundar]

Why, dear lord, why do idiots always have to fight like little kids on the forums? This was meant to be a discussion on Divx coming to the 360, which I am really stoked about. So I come in here hoping to read some interesting stuff, and what do I get? A bunch immature idiots fighting over stuff when they are so often ill-informed. Of course companies borrow/steal from each other. It's the way of the world. To the Xbox and Play Station fan boys who persist on flaming each other...do
me 2 favors: (1) watch "Triumph of the Nerds and (2) stay off the internet forever. Merci.