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[Jotaro]

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/press/release/detail/0,,2076_4313_191756422,00.html

At last, big companies are opening up to MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, and all their variants!

It will use a Mediatek chipset, so it will play DivX pro, Xvid with QPel and GMC. Drawback tough, it could not have a great support as for firmware updates considering Pioneer's track record with DVD Players (as opposed to their DVD burners), because until now all their players use non-flashable chips.

Still, SACD, DVD-Audio, XviD, all these decoders, Pioneer quality, plus a good chipset for video (this latest Mediatek chipset also is great with interlaced material like anime, it seems a great choice for animé fans with HDTVs).

Hold on if you want to buy a DVD player!

 

[ElyrionX]

I just fucking bought a DV-270S last week.........

 

[mrklaw]

there are already Divx players out there. Is this proper MP4 support or just playing stuff captured on your memory card, like with the panasonic DVD recorders?

 

[Hitokage]

Your link doesn't say anything about XviD.

 

[Jotaro]

Your link doesn't say anything about XviD.

It will never be mentioned nowhere because it's open-source, unlike DivX which is commercial now. A player such as these does not reads "DivX" or "XviD": it reads MPEG-4 compatible streams, which XviD definitely it.

Older chipsets had issues playing some XviD, but that is mostly because on deffault features are enabled in the XviD encoder that gave troubles to standalone players after the 1.0 release. The Mediatek chipset is THE chipset to solve all these issues. And coming from Pioneer, I am sure of it's impending quality.

mrklaw: from cd-rs and dvd-rs, the real deal dude

 

[aoi tsuki]

Pfft. No FLAC support, no sale.

 

[Jotaro]

Pfft. No FLAC support, no sale.

Open source project. As much as I love FLAC myself, on big brand names, it's never going to happen.

 

[aoi tsuki]

Open source project. As much as I love FLAC myself, on big brand names, it's never going to happen.

i was being sarcastic, and didn't feel like emoting my post. :/

 

[Hitokage]

Open source project. As much as I love FLAC myself, on big brand names, it's never going to happen.

Being open source in itself doesn't prevent inclusion, lest we forget tivo. Oh, and "never" is a strong word considering Kenwood already made an exception.

 

[Jotaro]

Being open source in itself doesn't prevent inclusion, lest we forget tivo. Oh, and "never" is a strong word considering Kenwood already made an exception.

Exceptions confirm the rule. I really did believe in the begining Ogg could supplant MP3, how foolish I was.