HomePlaying video on game consoles
If you’ve read TPP’s about page, then you would already know that I like gaming (owner of Wii + Xbox 360, or as I would like to call “The Winning Combination”™), movies, video technology and Arsenal.
To play back an Arsenal movie, encoded using DivX or XviD, on my Xbox 360, would then be the trifecta.
Unfortunately, thanks to the concept of money (more precisely, the concept of making lots of it by having proprietary video formats), neither my Xbox 360 nor my Wii can play back DivX or XviD movies without some serious tinkering.
And with this in mind, I finally decided to do a bit of work on Digital Digest to see if I could come up with a way to do this.
It took several days, handfulls of hairs being pulled out, 16 cans of Coke, a broken foot from kicking my desk in frustration, a sore back from lifting the Xbox 360 around the place and some nasty emails being sent to random people on my mailing list, but I finally finished writing two guides that sort of did what I wanted to do: Nintendo Wii Video Conversion Guide and Xbox 360 DivX, XviD Playback Guide.
They’re not perfect solutions, far from it, but at least the possibility is now there.
Come on Nintendo and Microsoft, add native DivX/XviD playback to your game consoles and see their sales skyrocket.