FYI: New Media Center Extender Getting H.264 and HDMI

**admin** · 10 Sep 2007, 02:01 PM

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cedia07/qa-new-media-center-extender-getting-h264-and-hdmi-297133.php

Got some eyes-on time with the upcoming refreshed Media Center Extender v.2 boxes. Here are the features that weren't in the press release that will hopefully keep it from being DOA like the older MCE 2005 extenders and differentiate it from current-gen Xbox 360. • It is lame, but the Xbox 360 is not slated to get the…

So MCE Extender boxes are getting DivX, XviD and H.264 support (as well as HDMI, 1080p output, wireless N support and heaps of other features). Pity the Xbox 360 won't include DivX/XviD playback, but if this is the direction Microsoft is going, then DivX/XviD on the Xbox 360 might still be possible ...