XBox Live Update adds DivX support to the 360
Finally !
Updated my 360 last night, plugged in a USB stick with a DivX video file on it, and it prompted to download another optional download which would enable AAC (w/o DRM it said) playback and MPEG4 playback.
After a small download, I was watching the DivX AVI file with much better clarity than I currently get from my DivX certified DVD player.
Transformers - Finally a movie to outsmart the BitTorrent Pirates
I personally can’t wait to see Transformers the Movie…. But after reading the article from Wired linked below, I’ll have to do so making sure that I see it on the largest screen that I can find in Dublin and then make sure that I have an excellent seat.
The reason is simple clarity is everything in this movie. I’ve seen awesome 9MB JPEG’s of the CGI renders of what the characters will look like and was blown away. You need to see this movie on a large screen just to take it all in.
The trend of movie downloading via BitTorrent, be it either Camera’s in Cinema’s or DVD rips will never do this movie justice, so those “pirates” who download movies in this way probably should not do so this time, because they will miss out on so much.
“In scenes with multiple robots, rendering a single frame of film can take up to 38 hours.”
The Rebirth of Optimus Prime: Behind the Scenes with Director Michael Bay
I think that this movie could only have been made now, when we have High Definition Cinema’s and Blu-Ray technology available at home …. This movie is probably the first true usage of both…..
Anyway 11 days to go….