Teknomaagi

KISS DVD DP450, coming early 2003

- Playback of standard DVD-Video and Audio CD media
- Playback of MPEG-4, MP3, WMA and other downloaded formats
- Internal hard drive for direct video/audio file storage
- Progressive video and optional high definition output

Has Sigma Designs new EM8500-chip that does:

- Decodes Dolby Digital 5.1 -signal
- Supports 480p, 576p ja 720p progressive scan (PAL/NTSC)
- Does scaling for 1920x1080i ja 1280x720p
- DVI/HDCP ja HDMI/HDCP -compliant
- Supports DivX 4.02:ta and newer
- Shows JPEG-pictures

+Ethernet
+Keyboard
+Progressive Scan for PAL signal
+Plays MP3's from DVD-R

+Secret Menu for other options..

Interesting.

renaldow

Do you have any links to this player?

Teknomaagi

I'm sorry but No.

renaldow

Where did you hear about it then?

Thunderball

is this from the rock band KISS? I wouldn't be surprised if it is

Fielding Mellish

That damn Gene Simmons has his hand in everything...

Teknomaagi

It was posted to one Finnish Hometheatre/DVD forum about a week ago. Some user had contacted the Kiss (a danish DVD-player manufacturer) who gave this information.

So basicly that player is just a compact HTPC with DVD-drive + remote control.

skar

I sure most DivX files will look really bad on a large or even somewhat large TV set. But this is interesting news. Here some other recent DivX developments:

DivX on the Sharp Zauras PDA:

http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/2130.html

DivX on the Xbox:

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-935180.html

discostu1337

Why would Divx look bad on a tv? They looked fine with tvout a while back on a 32", and svcds (which are similar to divx) look great on our 36" tv.