March 28, 2008

Hauppauge Jumping on the DivX Connected Platform Bandwagon

Hauppauge, one of the biggest players in TV capture cards and all things video, has an agreement with the people over at DivX, Inc to create a new device based on the DivX Connected Platform. Currently only the D-Link DSM-330 has the Connected Platform installed so this is a very good sign for the future of the Connected Platform. We love what the guys at DivX have created and we are excited to see this getting added to another device. The DivX Connected Platform was designed so that people could extend it by writing plug-ins for it, thus keeping it constantly fresh and new. There is a very vibrant user community already in place creating great content to add to the Connected Platform. In our testing with the DSM-330 we have been very impressed with just how well thought out the whole system is. We have reviewed more devices then we can count and this is one of the few that had us saying wow on a regular basis.

We are interested in seeing what video veterans like Hauppauge can do with this. There is no info on when this device will see the light of day, but since the announcement just came out we would assume it will be a while, maybe CES 2009. For now the DSM-330 is the only place you will be able to find the DivX Connected Platform running in a device. If you want to play around with it you can download a standalone client/server setup here.

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