HD TV is a popular technology trend that offers many benefits to viewers, including high definition picture quality, the ability to support and display clearer, more detailed content as well as CD-quality sound. These benefits are often found in most movie theatres, but provide consumers with the same experience from the comfort of their own sofa at home. The age of digital TV has also introduced new ways of sharing content and video without the need for physical optical media such as discs or tapes. There are a number of video formats and codecs available today that support and compress HD video. These popular formats have been adopted by many HDTV manufacturers, that include special interactive features like streaming video, digital content playback as well as internet video sharing - a phenomena that continues to grow and grow. Some popular video formats supported on most HDTVs include Microsoft’s WM9, the H.264/MP4 Video format, and the HDV recording format. But the most popular of the digital HD formats is the established DiVXone.
DiVX Video Format
DiVX stands for Digital Video Extreme. This video format is one of the longest standing and most popular digital video sharing platforms available today. As it uses sophisticated video compression methods, DVD quality video is often able to be shrunk into less than one gigabyte without losing its quality. For some time, DiVX was considered as the video version of the MP3, because the format did not have built-in digital rights management, known as DRM. The DiVX format was also used to distribute video and content on peer-to-peer sharing sites, such as Pirate Bay, since it wasn’t equipped with DRM. These, among other reasons, are why the format is not as widely used for digital video distribution.
The preferred format
Today, the H.264 format has become the most widespread video format used on the internet by many providers and video sharing sites. The video format is a competing force to DiVX, due to the technology developed by Apple that natively supports the format.
Although H.264 is the preferred digital content format that is used by most providers, most HDTV sets come with DiVX support built-in because of the popularity of the video format. H.264 video is supported on most media systems and can be played back onto a HDTV.
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