The News Review:
- JVC XV-BP1 Blu-ray player: First foray into Blu-ray looks expensive
- Stocks Showing Unusually Heavy Volume – Travelzoo Inc DivX Inc …
- Portable DivX Blu-ray players arrive
- LG 50PS6000: Rumours of plasma’s death greatly exaggerated
- 1999 – 2009 Ten years of AfterDawn
- More moaning about Sony
- BitTorrent n Your TV For Less Than $90.00
JVC XV-BP1 Blu-ray player: First foray into Blu-ray looks expensive
Unthinkable – Devices you wouldn't think of
Its functionality and styling brings strongly to mind LG’s BD370 player. So much so that it might seem that they have come from the same stable if not the same production lines. Both players offer DivX and MPEG-4 playback. Both have the same shiny front-panel is similar. Both even offer MKV file support. Have JVC taken one too many peeks through LG’s windows? Whether MKV is a major add is too soon to decide.
Stocks Showing Unusually Heavy Volume – Travelzoo Inc DivX Inc …
Schaeffers Research
Auto Parts Network Inc. (PRTS) Travelzoo Inc (TZ) iPass (IPAS) Marshall Edwards (MSHL) Plug Power (PLUG) Palm Harbor Homes (PHHM) Syntroleum (SYNM) Nautilus Group (NLS) Bio-Rad Laboratories (BI) Friedman Billings Ramsey Group (FBR) Sonic Solutions (SNIC) Interactive Data (IDC) DivX Inc. (DIVX) Interactive Brokers Group Inc. (IBKR) Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) LCA-Vision (LCAV) Myriad Genetics (MYGN) PMC – Sierra Inc (PMCS) Wellcare Group (WCG). These are the top stocks from today’s scan which has some basic filters to eliminate stocks that don’t trade frequently. A description of the column headings is below.
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Portable DivX Blu-ray players arrive
TG Daily
Available from today in the US Canada France and Australia the portable Panasonic DMP-B15 will be available in the rest of the world shortly say the companies who also claim that DivX enables more than six hours of video to fit on one DVD without sacrificing quality. The DMP-B15 can be connected to a HDTV or used as a stand alone Blu-ray player. “As the pioneer in the development of DVD and Blu-ray technologies we are pleased to bring the first portable Blu-ray player to market with DivX Certified video playback” says Kazuhiko Nakamura from Panasonic. “The Blu-ray player market is significant and growing accounting for nine percent of the total stand alone player market in 2009 up from just over five percent in 2008″ said Sheri Greenspan senior analyst at iSuppli.
LG 50PS6000: Rumours of plasma’s death greatly exaggerated
Crave
Its one-piece glass styling has hints of blue in the bezel so when the light catches it it really does look the business. To help sweeten the deal the 50PS6000 is a 1080p TV with all the usual bells and whistles you might expect. Specifically there’s DivX playback via the built-in USB 2. 0 connector but the TV can’t cope with DivX HD or indeed any other HD codecs.
1999 – 2009 Ten years of AfterDawn
Afterdawn.com
The problem with SVCDs was that they took quite a lot of space (most long-ish movies required 3 CDs) and the fact that a better contender was already making its way to the “throne”. Sometime in 2002 a format called DivX 
— yes the smiley is part of its original name — made finally its breakthrough and became the most popular video format. The original format wasn’t actually a format at all but a mere hack of Microsoft’s MPEG-4 implementation. Microsoft in its wisdom had crippled its MPEG-4 in a way that it required Microsoft’s own WMA audio format to be used as the audio track. As the WMA was subpar choice for most people DivX hack emerged that allowed Microsoft’s MPEG-4 video to be combined with MP3 audio. Year or so after the DivX gained ground the guy behind the original hack added with financial backing and other developers created a “proper” MPEG-4 based video format that they began to call as DivX (without the smiley face).
More moaning about Sony
Times nline Blogs
It doesn't play photos or music from a USB stick (only from a disc). Sony can't guarantee Divx playback. The USB port is used for extra storage of downloaded content only. It is located at the back of the machine. You know that bit you can't quite get at? Yep just there. As a Blu-ray player it seems proficient and it has nice menus. But then so does the PlayStation 3 also by Sony which does have wi-fi onboard storage (lots of it) USB ports at the front and plays Divx files.
BitTorrent n Your TV For Less Than $90.00
TorrentFreak
CinemaCube connects to your regular TV. It has an HDMI port and supports HD content up to 720p. 264 MP4 MP2 RMVB WMV MP4 MKV JPEG BMP and PNG. Audio formats are also supported including FLAC AAC GG and WAV. f course there are many other set-top style boxes with these type of capabilities these days but what sets CinemaCube out from the competition is what it doesn’t have.