September 23, 2003'”San
Diego and Sunnyvale, CA'”DivXNetworks, Inc. revealed Wednesday that the
company's patent-pending DivX video compression technology will support the
newly-launched AMD Athlon 64 processor. AMD has licensed a newly produced
version of Dr. DivX for AMD Athlon 64 processor users as well.
 The new
version of the official DivX video encoding application, called Dr. DivX:
AMD64 Edition, is planned to be distributed for a limited time as part of
a special program to customers who purchase the AMD Athlon 64 FX processor
in a box ("PIB") or AMD Athlon 64 FX processor-based
systems.
"Our customers demand nothing but the best
from DivX video, and we are always working hard to improve visual quality
and encoding and decoding performance. The arrival of the AMD Athlon 64
processor family provides a significant advancement in performance for
DivX users," said Jordan Greenhall, co-founder and CEO of DivXNetworks,
Inc. "With the newly optimized edition of our official video encoding
product, consumers can create DivX video from any source faster than ever
before. We're very pleased that the Dr. DivX: AMD64 Edition is available
for users to easily and quickly create great-looking DivX videos on their
PCs."
The first and only official DivX video
encoding application, Dr. DivX easily converts almost any video format
into great-looking DivX video for the highest visual quality at the
greatest level of compression. Dr. DivX enables anyone to create
high-quality DivX video in three easy steps, turning a once cumbersome and
time-consuming video encoding process into a quick and easy procedure. Dr
DivX: AMD64 Edition will offer significant enhancements in speed and
performance, enabling consumers to create high-quality DivX videos faster
than ever before. |
Source: mi2n.com/
