The News Review:
- MWC: Samsung Infuses Mobile Phones With Touch DivX Support
- DivX announces Mobile Theater Certification Program for HQ video
- Hulu’s Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight
MWC: Samsung Infuses Mobile Phones With Touch DivX Support
PC Magazine -
This week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the company launched four new handsets the most high-end of which can record high-definition video files at 720p resolution. (Alas none of the new phones are named after action verbs. )The mnia HD i8910 sports a 3. 7-inch AMLED touch screen DivX video capability and a TV-out feature. That means the mnia HD could be the first phone that functions as a genuine HD portable media player for use with a living room television. Samsung also equipped the mnia HD with an eight-megapixel camera a GPS radio with geo-tagging capability a HSDPA 7. 2 data radio and support for software widgets.
DivX announces Mobile Theater Certification Program for HQ video
TG Daily -
The new certification supports DivX Home Theater resolution natively on cell phones with a TV-ut feature that can send playback to a TV or other media player. DivX claims users will be able to store up to 10 DVDs at Home Theater resolutions using the phone’s 8 GB internal storage card. Users will reportedly be able to drag-and-drop standard “internet video content” to their phone with no conversion necessary. See the DivX Mobile Home Theater Certification.
Hulu’s Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight
‘Reilly Radar CA -
who control distribution are) about this topic of video on the Internet which was just starting to be hotly debated at the time. Some of the comments below also come from participating in discussions about copy protection and Divx which if you’ll remember was at that time a self-destructing DVD-like format that would let the studios control how long you could watch their entertainment. No seriously it started to self-destruct when it was exposed to air and these people all thought it was certain to win over DVD. Wrong but instructive. ]The secret to understanding why.
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