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Kenshin (CDFreaks Resident)
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Posted: 13-11-2002
It seems like one of the most interesting news since the release of Sony DRU-500A.

Sigma EM8500 DVD Decoder with MP4 (MPEG-4), MP3 and WMA Playback

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/em8500.htm

Key Features:

Complete single-chip solution for next-generation progressive DVD players.
Supports DVD-Video, Superbit™ DVD, DVD-R/DVD-RW (conditional), SVCD, VCD, Picture CD, CD/CD-R/CD-RW (audio, WMA, DivX™, MP3 and MPEG-4 files) media formats.
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 MP@ML, MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile Level 5* video decoding.
Dolby Digital, MPEG-1 Layers 1, 2 and 3 (MP3) and Windows® Media Audio (WMA) v8 audio decoding.
Embedded 150MHz RISC to run system software and navigation.
Integrated IDE (ATA/ATAPI-4) and DVD loader interface supports a wide variety of DVD loaders.
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When one of these players plays back DiVX 3.11a I might be interested
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Posted: 15-11-2002
I'd love to have the DVD version of iRiver multi-codec portable audio CD player that can also play VCD and DVD-Video - no plan yet as far as I know though.
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Posted: 15-11-2002
Neuston announces stand-alone DVD/DivX player - another company

Start-up brings PC movies to TV
11:00 Wednesday 13th November 2002
John Lui, CNET Asia

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A Singapore firm is to release a DVD player that can also play films encoded in the DivX, one of the most popular computer formats
The explosion in the popularity of Internet file-sharing has led to thousands of PC users enjoying downloaded movies. So far, most have had to watch them on a PC, which has the software necessary to decode the files.

But from January next year, such movies can be watched in the living room, with the release of a DVD player that can also play movies encoded in one of the most popular computer formats, DivX. Movies encoded in the DivX format are small enough to download, without sacrificing too much image quality.

The device, dubbed Maestro DVX-1201, will operate like a standard home entertainment DVD player, except that it can also play computer file formats such as DivX and MPEG-4 for movies, MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) for music and JPEG for images.

It will be the first product from start-up Neuston, a Singapore-based firm, and will be among the first DivX/MPEG-4-compatible players available anywhere. It is expected to be launched in January for under $350, said its marketing director Ambrose Tham.

He said the idea for the product came when their studies showed a strong consumer demand for a living-room MPEG-4 and DivX player. The combination of Internet use, broadband penetration and high-quality home cinema systems in North America, Europe and parts of Asia will drive demand for such a player, he believed.

"A player that can support these formats would mean that users can use their home theatre systems to watch DivX movies," Tham said.

A typical user might use a PC to burn a DivX movie onto a CD, then use the Maestro DVX-1201 to play it back on a TV.

DivX software has been downloaded 70 million times worldwide, according to its creators DivXNetworks. A variant of industry-standard MPEG-4 compression technology, DivX is especially popular with file-trading fans who controversially share movies, music and software on the Internet.

However, Tham asserts that Neuston is not so much motivated by the current popularity of file sharing, but the potential of DivX and MPEG-4 as a distribution format of choice among legitimate content providers.

"DivX has qualities comparable to DVDs and is slowly becoming a mainstream video format...because of its high compression and superior quality," he said.

Earlier this year, KiSS Technology, a Scandinavian manufacturer of DVD products, announced that it would be selling the KiSS DP-450, a DVD player that also has DivX, MPEG-4 and MP3 support, among others.
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Posted: 30-11-2002
Not much use if you cannot burn it to CD in the machine itself that. The ethernet connection seems a bit gimmicky. Streaming would suck on most connections. Maybe from your hard disk I guess it would be fine.

DiVX 3.11a, OGG and AC3 support would be ideal.

I presume Xvid should work already.
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Posted: 30-11-2002
DivX and MPEG-4 streaming service has been quite common here in South Korea where most connections for the 25 million Net surfers are capable of at least 2-8Mbps download. As long as there are properly installed DSL or cable or fibre connections, the bandwidth requirement is negligible (10Mbps vs. 1Mbps). The problem is the policy, not the technology. So here is a DVD player that can download from the web directly via 100Mbps Ethernet. We already know there are already DVD recorders that have built-in HDDs. There are even prototype Blu-ray recorders and HDTV recorders with HDDs. Gigabit is also already cheap. All just a time of matter.
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Posted: 05-12-2002
A bit old but here's the CD Freaks interview with LiteOn Marketing Manager.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/document.php3?Doc=96
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Where can I buy the KiSS DVD players in the U.S.? After doing a search on Google, seems they're available in the U.K., but I didn't find any U.S. sites.
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Posted: 26-12-2002
DigiTimes reports on an In-Stat/MDR press release estimating DVD players and recorders shipment in the next four years. The complete report seems to be 50-pages long and is very expensive (US$2995) for average readers.

In-Stat MDR Press Release (December 17, 2002)

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“DVD Player shipments have increased again in 2002, growing by 61%” says Michelle Abraham, a Senior Analyst with In-Stat/MDR. “The increased form factors and low prices are keeping interest in purchasing DVD players up, though the DVD player market is maturing and the worldwide shipment growth rate is slowing down.” In 2005 and 2006, DVD recorders will be purchased in place of DVD players, reaching 32 million units in 2006.

In-Stat/MDR has also found that:

Though growth is slowing in the US, it will still be the largest region in unit shipments through 2004. The growth rate in Europe will be higher than that of North America through 2005. Europe has been one year behind the US, in terms of the market’s unit shipment growth rate. China’s domestic market will surpass that of the US in unit shipments in 2006.

The first blue laser DVD products are expected in late 2003, but their high prices will put them out of reach for most consumers.

As more manufacturers move to produce DVD recorders, pricing will drop to under $400 by the end of 2003, possibly under $300 with fierce competition. At less than $300, more consumers will purchase DVD recorders.

DVD recorders will ship over one million units in 2002, which is just the beginning as the market will experience triple-digit unit shipment growth rates through 2005.
Also reported at CD Freaks News page.
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Originally posted by GezusK
Where can I buy the KiSS DVD players in the U.S.? After doing a search on Google, seems they're available in the U.K., but I didn't find any U.S. sites.
Kiss DVD players are now available in Japan but for nearly US$400.
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Posted: 13-01-2003
WiseMBED MBoX ip300 DVD-Video Player with MPEG-4 and DivX Support

A South Korean company has announced another DVD-Video player with support of playing MPEG-4 and DivX files on DVD disk.





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Posted: 28-01-2003
25,700 Yen DivX DVD-Video Standalone Player

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