With all of the muss and fuss over Blu-ray and HD-DVD, sometimes the simpler solutions get swept under the rug and written off as ‘unviable’. That’s likely what will happen with The DivX 6 software which can ’shrink’ a full length high definition movie small enough to fit on a standard DVD. There’s only one problem with this however, no studios are interested.

I suppose the fact that the required HD DVD player (AVeL Linkplayer2) sells for only $249.00 doesn’t please the hardware manufacturers very much, as the Linkplayer can be ordered on-line right now and the first HD/Blu players are many months away at the earliest, and are likely to sell for at least 1k. And on the studio side they cant be very happy with a hi-def video format that wasn’t put through every possible DRM solution under the planet. Maybe one day consumers will embrace simpler ‘low-tech’ solutions that offer much of the same benefits of their higher priced more elaborate cousins, but I don’t think it will be this year.

Michael.G

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