Why Panasonic’s Divx Compatible Blu-Ray Player maybe the new key to PIRACY?
Panasonic has Launched DMP-BD30EG/EE a DivX compatible Blu-Ray player. It is the first of its kind standalone Blu-Ray player which supports DivX. Playstation 3 users already had the option to play DivX on there Blu-Ray players. This is a very big step by Panasonic but is it a new door for Piracy??
First some Jargon Buster 
DivX Codec is popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. The DivX codec uses lossy MPEG-4 Part 2 compression, also known as MPEG-4 ASP, where quality is balanced against file size for utility. It is one of several codecs commonly associated with “ripping”, whereby audio and video multimedia are transferred to a hard disk and transcoded.
So this codec is very popular for ripping movies and is specifically used by pirates to share movies as the sizes are small.
Analysis why it might a key to piracy:
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