How to win the console war

by taoski on September 6, 2007

Microsoft have just stepped one BIG step closer to “droppin’ da bomb” on Sony and the PS3 by announcing support for Xvid and DivX codecs within their Media Center Extender software.

The software runs on your PC and can push content to Media Center devices such as the Xbox360.В  Support for Divx and Xvid has been available before using various hacks/transcodes and workarounds, but if the Xbox360 gets this as part of its Fall Dashboard Update (already rumoured to be true) then this will kill the PS3.

Well.. until Sony add support for it anyway.

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 bigfootcookie 09.06.07 at 3:22 pm

I haven’t played a game in yonks.

Unless you class welding and grinding and building stuff as playing…………..

2 Damian Byne 09.07.07 at 12:09 am

Ahhhhh - I wonder if that’s why Xbox Live is giong to be down on Monday. (For Maintenance).

Yesssssss

3 Damian Byne 09.07.07 at 12:11 am

But Vista…. B*ll*cks.

4 Taoski 09.07.07 at 12:31 am

I hope that the 360 will be able to play Xvid and Divx content from USB devices.

Now that WOULD be amazingly cool!

5 Mr Grumpy 09.12.07 at 11:52 am

Seems to me you’re talking about a PC rather than a console…

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