DivX Networks Touts New Studio Deals

Internet video bad boy DivX Networks already has a partnership with 20th Century Fox to encode films for an airline movie-rental service. Now its video file format will be used in planned Internet VOD services that would be available to consumers by the first half of 2005, though DivX President Shahi Ghaman declined to say which studios plan to sign on.

But he said he expects deals with all five of the major Hollywood studios eventually, citing the industry’s desire to back an alternative to Microsoft and the pending next generation of the Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn.

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