Davis Freeberg

New DivX Hook-Up with Matroska to Provide Enhanced Video Experience

Thxs for the comment Rassoodock, I'm glad that you've enjoyed my posts, it's fun for me to track the company. You raise an interesting point re: Sony. I keep listening to Sony interviews in order to get a better sense of their strategy, but still can't figure out whether or not they are planning a DivX video store or if their plans are to try to cut out all middlemen. Seems to me, that they could just as easily make a video store using the VC-1 codec that Blu-Ray uses.

Here is a link to an interesting interview with Sony's CTO discussing their plans. Other than making it painfully obvious that he doesn't understand what the digital revolution is all about, the video raises more questions than answers re: their plans for DivX and Netflix. From his description one would think that he's talking exclusively about a DivX download program, but his protectionist comments lead me to believe that they didn't learn anything from the walkman fiasco.

www.beet.tv/2008/06/so...

Anyway, I found the whole interview discouraging because it reaffirmed that Sony is going to fight tooth and nail to protect their oligarchy on content, but would interested in hearing your own conclusions from watching the video.