The open-source multimedia world cleared a legal hurdle three decades in the making today: the final patent covering MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual — the codec behind DivX and Xvid — expired on July 19, 2026, ...

Digital Video Express (Divx), the controversial pay-per-play DVD format backed by Circuit City, is dead. Circuit City Stores, the umbrella company housing the separate consumer electronics and ...

If you’re of a certain age, the name DivX might bring back fond memories of CDs and DVDs with hand-scrawled titles, slow downloads, and the thrill of watching a video that actually played smoothly on ...

LSI Logic's new DiMeNsion(TM)-3 solution enables one of the industry's first DivX(R) encoding solutions on the DMN-8603 DVD recorder processor (http://www.lsilogic ...

Physical media is dead. Well, at least that's the saying. Tens of millions of units of physical music titles still move each year, with even CDs selling respectably despite more vinyl records being ...

If you want to send a video to someone, chances are you'll want to convert it or shrink its size. Here are the best options for changing the video into something more manageable. There's no doubt, ...

It’s not just the JVC NX-BD3 that’s been getting friendly with DivX at IFA this year. Everyone’s favourite new codec has also popped up on LG’s new DVD spinner. Yes, you heard us – DVD. The LG DVS450H ...

It might seem almost comical to our more fresh-faced readers, but there was a time when you could go into a big box retailer and purchase what was known as a “DivX Player”. Though they had the outward ...

JVC announced the released of KV-DV50 to be released September in Japan. KV-DV50 is an in-car DVD player that will play more than just DVD, it support DivX files, WMA and MP3s. The disappointing part ...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Driving my young son through a part of Birmingham over the weekend before last, we stopped at lights in the Cotteridge area. Just outside a big booze shop.

It was 20 years ago this month that consumer electronics companies Sony and Toshiba launched a new home video format called Digital Video Disc, or DVD. The format promised a four-fold increase in ...

Chinese electronics company Top Victory Investments sued DivX in California federal court on Monday to block its arbitration bid seeking more than $65 million in a license breach fight, asserting the ...