jsl, our daily newssubmitter, let's us know that according to a press release on the Yahoo!Finance website, InterVideo will integrate DivX technology in their newly released WinDVD Platinum software:
DivXNetworks, Inc., the company that created the patent-pending DivX(TM) video compression technology, and InterVideo, Inc. today announced a comprehensive software licensing and marketing partnership. Under the agreement, InterVideo has licensed DivX and DivX Pro video compression technology for the company's leading line of digital video and audio multimedia software products. |
WinDVD Platinum, the most recent version of the world's best-selling DVD player, is the first InterVideo product to feature DivX technology. Additionally, InterVideo plans to integrate DivX and DivX Pro encoding technology into future versions of other leading products. The two companies will co-market the DivX-powered InterVideo products through their respective web properties, www.intervideo.com and www.divx.com. DivX.com offers a valuable marketing channel of international tech-savvy digital video consumers, with 10 million monthly visitors.
For people that don't know what DivX is, DivX is a video compression technology that offers DVD-quality video at sizes 7-10 times smaller than MPEG-2. The full press release can be found here.
Source: Yahoo!Finance
