Standalone DivX Player from Yamakawa...

January 10, 2002

fullstah used our newssubmit to tell us about a German article on DivX decoder chips for standalone players developed by Cirrus Logic. It is also said that Yamakawa (www.yamakawa.de) was forbidden to show their standalone DVD/DivX-Player.

Here are some parts of the article translated with Babel Fish:

Matt Perry, vice-president and general manager of the Embedded processor department of Cirrus Logic, imagined obviously not much thereby, when he told an American press representative at the edge of the CES that its enterprise had developed decoder chips for the DivX Videoformat liked with robbery copiers, which should be supplied now to two (not more near mentioned) manufacturers by DVD Playern.

The lady journalist however quite knew from the explosiveness of this development, for which many PC users wait already for a long time. Nevertheless DivX, also in its legal form, has the call of a pure robbery copier format in industrial sets still.

Meanwhile Cirrus Logic worries about damage delimitation: One is quite in a the position to manufacture appropriate chips holds back itself for the moment however with appropriate announcements, such a firm speaker. Nevertheless in any case still questions of copyright are to be clarified.

It seems rather improbable that the first DivX compatible Player of the large manufacturers comes. Of heise on-line on the CES started inquiry under major resulted in anyhow that these are still very reserved with the topic DivX.

A firm speaker, who wanted to remain anonymous, brought it on the point: The manufacturers of DVD Playern are afraid the consequences, which a support of the format would bring with itself - to everything in front the danger to joke itself it with the film industry. Those will not turn away no more from the DVD format, is however well-known for their complaint joyfulness.

The text is a bit weird but understandable I hope You can find the original German article here.