it just gets beter.

not too shabby

Good news :)  Sony is really doing well now i love it :)

how does divx work?

Its a file format that compresses video files.  It keeps it high quality with low mb.  :)  its good.

great ive been dying to play some of my Divx movies on my PS3. Thank god i dont have to save anymore giant files to my hardrive.

This is definitely a big advantage for sony to undertake, question is how are they going to fully utilize it and how soon will that be?

alright nice... Now i have the Divx and In-game XMB to look forward to these firmware updates yes!!!

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lol

About time.  Now let's see 360 fanboys gloat their DivX.

Cool feature letting the devs use it. :)

i just hope we get VOD service soon..... maybe this is what the DIVX is all for in reality?..... to (at least) make it bareble to download Vids from the PSStore?..... everyone keeps saying DIVX is great quality?.... its been about 5 years since Imesh(last time i got DivX vids)... and they were pretty terrible quallity... especially audio..... maybe its changed....for the better?... i hope so

OMFGAWZOMESAUCEPLOSION!!!!!!!!!!FAAWWWWWKK!!

...can you tell I'm happy?

i hope the update comes in time for christmas.

Well I really don't care as I already have a Philips DVD Player that plays most of DivX/Xvid has USB Slot for media and HD Upscaler.  I only hope PS3 to show MKV and OGM files

What about xvid? I have a lot of xvid stuff that I'd like to watch on the ps3

Why would people use DivX over h.264, when h.264 is a lot better at comression, its the logical choice

I hope they introduce xvid too, like the 360. I don't see why they shouldn't, considering it's an open format.

yay sonys doing it right!

it's good to hear good news, maybe once we get divx we might get xvid and why not the ability to read other formats, why should sony stop at divx?

Score one more for Sony!!!

zarajoe:  I agree with you, h264 is way better.  But most vids from the net are divx.  I already have my entire dvd collection on h264 on my ps3, and with this i'll be able to watch all my anime.  The ps3 is getting a lot closer to becoming a true media center.  I only wish sony had better support for the nero digital avc format.

psn id: gingo... this is good news just when people thought 360 had nabbed something from playstation we find out it isn't even the full package

Never heard of Divx.

Go divx!!! Go PS3!!!!

Who's to say that by the time PS3 gets Divx, the 360 won't be updated as well? I don't think comparing something that's out to something that's not is fair. (Except for when 360 was out and PS3 wasn't yet, of course!) Remember UT3 was supposed to be mod-compatible, but it isn't YET. Is Divx necessary for in-game cutscenes? Doesn't that, in effect, hinder BluRay? Just a thought

oh i like this

Aratacus: go to stage6 (dot) com - it's all videos in DivX, it's exactly like YouTube in HD. There are thousands of 720p videos there in 1.3Mbit/s, streaming in DVD quality.

Clarky_psu, what rock have you been living under, or did you just get a computer a few days ago? This is the best news Sony has had recently!

dose the mean we will be able to view movie online? aha

Seeing is believing, so i'll believe it when I see it.

Every little bit helps.  Keep the good news coming.

LOL. The 360 doesn't even support playback from the harddrive, it has to be streamed from a PC. The PS3 will support from harddrive, and all external sources.

DivX support and in-game xmb in the same update will make it the best update yet before HOME.

DivX is great when all your hundreds of movie files are in this format. DivX is very common and I think the PS3 should've had his support from the start.

A question I have is why do developers need to use DivX or any other compression for cut-scenes when we have blu-ray with all that space? There is no need for compression and we should be getting uncompressed video and 5.1 or 7.1 audio through our HDMI cables. We ahve HDMI cables to stream uncompressed data but what's the point if the video is compressed? And I've seen some some not very high quality cut-scenes on PS3 games.

Yeah... I bought a 360 so I could get Divx support! Seriously who cares about the few Divx codecs that aren't supported! With all the games and extras, I could care less about it! The 360 is also a Windows Media Center Extender... it's all good!

 This link shows all the data for what the xbox supports with divx http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx

As for what it doesn't support i cant imagine using divx on Blu-ray, there is better HD Compression out there when you have all that space. Also, i don't understand the heat and power saving comment.

Lithgow brought up the issue of not being able to save to the hard drive. While that is true you can stream from any removable storage device or Optical Disc but even if it could save to the Hard drive. I cant imagine using it. Its honestly much easier to stream from my PC that is almost always on, its fast, stable, and convenient. (you don't even have to log in)

okay, so, just so you know if you read down to the bottom of these comments, ps3 has full media server compatibility and i stream videos from my pc to it using WMP 11.