Progressive scan MP4 HDTV DVD player
 

http://www.labdv.com/


WMV, MPEG-4 and DivX in your set-top DVD player? [15-Mar-2003]: China started to manufacture MPEG-4 DVD players and this is a strong signal that Video formats for PC are coming to Home Theatre... This transition won't be so easy for the users we are, because DVD set-top players aren't used to software updates and PC formats are very demanding with updates. labDV will help to follow on this new challenge which is part of the Internet-TV-PC convergence challenge set by the Electronics Industry. The brand new DVD-880 from A-Zone International Co Ltd (11F-1, No. 8, Lane 473, Kwang-Fu South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, azone@ms29.hinet.net) is shipped to Eastern Europe, North America and Asia with the following features:

* Progressive scan MP4 HDTV DVD player
* Dolby Digital 5.1 output, DTS digital out and 3D virtual surround
* Compatible with MPEG, MP3, MP4, Windows Media, audio, and JPEG picture CD media formats
* 96kHz/24-bit stereo audio DAC
* 10-bit video D/A converter
* Video output: progressive scan; supports 480p/720p/1080i HDTV, NTSC/PAL (or PAL-M for Brazil) composite and S-video, YpbPr
* Selectable screen aspect ratio (4:3 and 16:9) VFD display
* DVI, component (YUV), S-video, and A/V output
* Full scart output and RGB on scart connector
* Built-in headphone output with volume control
* 32 languages of subtitle and eight tracks of dialogues
* Multi-angle disc supported

No, uh! I don't believe anybody! Only one test works for me. Grabbing few
different format divx cds and playing them before buying the player. I was
trying three players that "are playing" divx.

After that... it's much more chiper to buy a slim pc with dvd-rom and
exchange it with your present dvd player. In that way you can play
anything from noncompressed to the latest xvid.

I think that DivX players are not likely to grab a good market place, because of the dynamics of MPEG-4. It's a moving target :!:, and anyone who buys a DivX standalone DVD player, is going to have to be downloading firmware updates to compensate for the "monthly" updates on CODECS. One more reason to use KVCDs :mrgreen:

-kwag

Also KiSS DVD Player DP-450 plays divx!

Well guys, I Know Divx video is not very stable yet and Players with Divx playback may or may not sell well, But somebody out there sims to :idea: that the Divx community is growing and that is worth selling a player with this other flavor of video format. :arrow: For me kvcd its just dandy :idea: the money Im saving backing up DVDs :wink: