PS3 has been talking DivX for a while, although it was never entirely clear on when exactly it would turn up. Same for Blu-ray 1.1 support. Xbox 360 owners, meanwhile, got to see their DivX support announced and then turn up almost immediately, which was kind of rude. Well at last it looks like we can stop our nervous pacing, because a new firmware update – v1.20 – is due tomorrow which will add full DivX Certification and Blu-ray 1.1 support.

The best thing about this most ass kicking kind of DivX support, is that not only does it turn the PS3 into a powerhouse of unrestrained copyright infringement – judging from the amount of content we’ve successfully thrown at the 360, it is nothing to be sniffed at – but developers will be able to encode their in-game cut-scenes using the efficient compression format. That means, alongside the huge amounts of space already on Blu-ray format discs, developers could have even more space to work with in future. Quite how well it works out with HD content remains to be seen though.

It’s lovely to see these companies bending over backwards to give us access to a gold mine of stolen digital content and, err, putting more tools at developers' disposal, of course. Yeah, right. Next thing you know, there’ll be an Azureus client...

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TECH.BLORGE, Max Console

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