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DivX Gives HP MediaSmart TV Full Certification.


Award-Winning TV Enables Wireless Streaming of High-Definition DivX Content

SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay.  & LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
:DIVX) announced today that the HP MediaSmart TV SLC (Subscriber Loop Carrier) Lucent's designation for its digital loop carrier (DLC) products. See digital loop carrier. See also 386SLC. 3760N is the first digital television to receive full DivX Certification. Critically lauded for its quality and unique feature set, the DivX Certified HP MediaSmart TV is now available in the U.S.

Named a 2006 Electronic House magazine "Product of the Year," the HP MediaSmart TV can stream high-definition DivX-encoded content over wired or wireless networks, from a home theater PC A home theater PC, or HTPC for short, is a personal computer connected to a television or a television-sized computer display. It is often used as a digital photo, music, and video player, TV receiver, and digital video recorder.  or from HP Media Vault Description
The Media Vault is manufactured by HP and comes in two flavors:
  1. mv2010 comes with an internal 300 GB drive
  2. mv2020 comes with an internal 500 GB drive
  3. mv2040 comes with an internal 500 GB drive + 500 GB drive in the Drive Bay
 network storage. The TV is designed to bring the full potential of digital content directly into the living room for the first time.

"The addition of DivX Certification to the HP MediaSmart TV unlocks an open ecosystem of digital media that can be seamlessly transferred from the PC to the living room while preserving the kind of high-quality, cinematic experience that home theater An audio/video entertainment center that has a large-screen TV and hi-fi system with three speakers in the front (left, right and center) and left and right speakers in the rear. Starting in the early 1990s, video inputs were added to stereo receivers and preamplifiers.  aficionados demand," said Kevin Hell, CXO CXO Chief Executive Officer (corporate title)
CXO Chandra X-ray Observatory
CXO Chief Experience Officer (corporate title)
CXO Conroe, TX (Airport Identifier) 
, Partners and Licensing, at DivX. "DivX is working to build a true common digital media language designed to offer true interoperability across converged devices and platforms, and innovative digital televisions like the HP MediaSmart TV are an important piece of that ecosystem."

Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone a rigorous testing program to ensure interoperability, security and visual quality. DivX Certified products enable consumers to create, play and share high-quality video content across a range of devices and platforms. Over 50 million DivX Certified devices from a variety of manufacturers have shipped worldwide.

"We are very pleased to have passed testing required to receive full DivX Certification," said Jan-Luc Blakborn, Director of Digital Entertainment, Americas, HP. "This certification gives users confidence that high-definition video This article is about high-definition video technology. For television systems, see High-definition television. For the tape format, see HDV. For compression and prerecorded media, see High-definition pre-recorded media and compression.  will remain crisp and clear while transferring across home networks to their HP MediaSmart TVs."

For more information on DivX Certification, visit http://www.divx.com/certification.

About DivX, Inc.

DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, , which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 200 million times in the last four years, including over 60 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player DivX Player is a standalone media player for DivX encoded video. The Mac OS X version was introduced with DivX 6.5 on 2006-05-25. Features
  • DivX playback.
  • Burn DivX discs.
 application, which is distributed from our website, http://www.divx.com. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the quality and potential of the DivX Certified MediaSmart TV and DivX technology generally. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause DivX's actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the risk that customer use of DivX technology may not grow as anticipated, the risk that anticipated market opportunities may not materialize at expected levels, or at all, the risk that the Company's activities may not result in the growth of profitable revenue, risks and uncertainties related to the maintenance and strength of the DivX brand; DivX's ability to penetrate existing and new markets; the effects of competition; DivX's dependence on its licensees and partners; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of DivX's quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
 filed with the SEC on November 13, 2006. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. DivX is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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