HD News: The dust has hardly settled on the High Definition format war but already new forms of digital technology are threatening to further revolutionize the way we acquire and watch movies.
The dominant High Definition DVD format, Blu-ray, has had a cool reaction from consumers and its market position is under increasing threat from services and technologies offering on demand films.
Coming to the forefront of digital download technology is DivX, a digital compression technology which prepares media files for high speed, high quality Internet distribution. Consumers can watch content on their pc or distribute to a whole host of DivX enabled portable devices and recently more notably HDTV’s.
DivX and Samsung have jointly announced that high-end Samsung HDTVs will soon be able to support DivX files through USB devices or DLNA-certified Ethernet connections.
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