A DivX PVR on the horizon?

 

by Chris Tew

It looks like DivX CEO Jordan Greenhall has been doing the interview rounds lately, I recently covered his interview with RedHerring and now Davis Freeberg has been speaking to him.

Davis went into a ittle more in depth with the CEO than Red Herring. Most interesting to us PVR fans was why we haven't seen DivX encoding in PVRs yet. The reason is to do with the size and expense of the silicon encoder chips.

DivX encoding in PVRs could save on storage space while maintaining quality, but unfortunately the silicon chips for encoding can be quite bulky and it's easier and cheaper to simply put in a bigger hard drive.

However Jordan said to Davis that "it hasn't been until very very recently until like the last couple of months, that encode chips have become available for things like DVD recorders and DVRs to use with technologies like DivX."

This could mean a DivX PVR could very well be on the shelves in 2007.

[original post: www.pvrwire.com]