I can’t believe a company could make a product with worse
file format support then v1 Media Center Extenders, but DivX seems to have
taken the cake with DivX Connected.
DivX Connected is DivX, Inc’s latest project to move into
the living room. It’s a standalone
hardware STB that plays DivX and brings Stage
6 into your living room, and that’s about all it does.
Note: The reviews
below are based on a prototype device, which means it could change by the time
it ships.
Anyway, according to Gizmodo
the box only supports decoding of DivX video and MP3 audio! No WMV, no Quicktime, no MPEG-4 AVC, no WMA,
and no AAC. What a joke. eHomeUpgrade
also has some video content of DivX showing off the device, I watched the first
one and pretty much stopped as soon as I saw Gizmodo’s post.
Note to DivX, Inc.
You didn’t reach 100 million
devices by only having DivX support in hardware products. Luckily, third parties and cheap SoC’s were
the reason you have shipped 100 million devices, but at this rate don’t expect
DivX Connected to give you another 100 million.
You will be lucky to sale 50 of these crap boxes.
I applied to the beta program for DivX Connected a while
ago, good thing it appears that I have not been selected. This product needs a lot of work before it is
worth anyone’s time to test.
Cross Posted from Chris Lanier's Blog at
http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/