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Article: DivX is a bonus for enhanced DVD players. (Hardware).(Cirrus Logic to use new technology in upcoming DVD player processors)
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- Video Business
- Article date:
- March 31, 2003
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UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF. -- Chip maker Cirrus Logic will incorporate MPEG-4-compatible DivX video technology into its new line of processors for DVD players, the latest boost for so-called "enhanced" DVD players--boxes that play interactive DVD-ROM-based bonus material and access other bonus material off the Internet.
Cirrus said it expects to enable the first sub-$149 DVD players with this DivX-enabling technology by the end of the year. With such boxes, consumers can view bonus content stored in MPEG-4-compressed DivX video, either stored on the DVD itself or accessed online with a key provided by the disc.
Enhanced DVD players eliminate the need to ...