Do Blue-ray players support DivX?

Question

specifically sony blue-ray

Answer 1

I am not very sure but I guess that it does. I am wondering why would you want to play divx on a blu-ray player. Blu-ray is all about high definition.

As for the region support, at present the player will play discs from any region. However very soon they might not be able to do that. Blu-ray discs are region coded (3 regions). At present all the discs being marketed are region free but since they did incorporate region coding, time is not far when region specific discs will be available in the market and may become the standard.

As of now, yes. The discs will play.

Answer 2

From what I've seen so far (unless they're keeping on the DL for some reason), no Blue-Ray players seem to have DivX listed as a supported filetype, with the technically exception of the PS3, which is a Blue-Ray player, and I'm fairly certain supports DivX. Furthmore the PS3 is technically a Sony Blue-Ray player, so that takes care of the "specific".  I've seen one Blue-Ray player from Pioneer that does support wmv's though, as well as other picture files types besides jpg.

I certainly understand why you'd want DivX on the Blue-Ray player. It's a big convenience when watching stuff from the net. And most never DVD players/burners have DivX, you'd figure Blue-Ray would too. Who wants to have an extra DVD player hanging around the player DivX, specially when Blue-Ray players can play your regular DVDs.  I wouldn't be suprised if they eventually start including DivX on some models.

As for the region coding. As the gentleman states, Blue-Ray comes equipped with region coding, although many discs are region free. However, whether it would matter anyway depends on what you mean by Asia. Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and other South East Asia are actually the same region as North America. (So that pretty much gives you a green light on most import Kung Fu and Anime Blue-Ray Discs). Mainland China, India, Russia and other Asian counties do fall into a different region however.

I'm unsure how Blue Ray players handle regular DVD region coding however.  The same restriction may apply, unless they try to conform the DVD regions Blue-Ray players play to match the countries from one of the 3 Blue-Ray regions.