Xbox360 Will Never Support DivX According to Major Nelson
Major Nelson of Xbox Live fame, who is also a Microsoft employee, recently stated that the Xbox360 will never support DivX. And the reason why? Because DivX is primarily used to “backup” DVDs and Microsoft don’t want to get involved in this contentious area.
If this is the official view from Microsoft it’s complete tosh in my view. Microsoft don’t have a problem supporting DivX within XP Media Center Edition so why is it a problem within the Xbox360 Extender?
Also, MCE and Xbox360 both support MP3s. MP3 is principally a “backup” format as well - if you purchase any music it’s usually in WMA or AAC format. So if they are happy to support MP3 then why can’t they support DivX?
I really hope Microsoft change their views in the future, as having to use Videora to convert my videos so that they play on my Xbox360 is getting really annoying.
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Comment by Anonymous on 17 December 2005:
I have to agree with you, I was mad to find out the 360 doesn't support Divx. I actually bought and installed MCE on my main pc just to use the 360 as an extender, mainly to watch all my Divx content and replace my xbox/xbmc. How they can call it a media center extender and then choose which formats it is/isn't going to support I don't know. Your arguements are all valid and arguements I've used myself on the forums, i.e. the piracy thing ( and then supporting mp3 ) and the fact that we can do what we want on our pc, and even watch through windows media player/media center but not 360?. I think this is bollocks. I think the reasons are 1; MS would have to pay to pre-install the codec on 360 and 2; they will probably try selling movies through live and would be shooting themselves in the foot if they allowed us to watch the same movies downloaded and playing in divx format for free. Just for the record I would gladly pay £20 to purchase the divx codec through live marketplace if they wanted to do it that way.
How about organising some protest?
Comment by Anonymous on 17 December 2005:
What kind of protest are you thinking of? You've got my support. I also have XMBC on my Xbox and I'm annoyed that I have a more capable piece of kit in my Xbox 360 which can only do half of what my Xbox can. I can't understand why Microsoft have neutered what is potentially a fantastic device!
Comment by Terry on 15 August 2007:
MS are a bunch of tossers