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1. Manufacturers of hardware don't have any good reason to care about copyright infringement save for the risk of content producers not cooperating with them. At this point, they're adopting the format (Blu-ray) the content producers have demanded, so from their point of view, the content producers can just suck it. "Don't like MKV? That's not your choice, and if you start forcing us to remove it, well, we might just stop making BD players."

2. MKV is only a de-facto pirate standard because it's becoming the de-facto non-MPEG container format. You might just as well have made the same complaint a few years ago about AVI, MOV, or WMV support.

3. DivX is more than MKV/AVI and H.264/ASP (new/old respectively.) It's also now got a DRM layer, so actually an increasing amount of "legitimate" (ie sold-by-Hollywood) content will be coming out in DivX format. So, in furtherance to (2) above, you might just as well complain about Blu-ray players supporting H.264, the most popular pirate format!

It's a shame H.264, MP3, and The Internet are all heavily used by pirates, it's so hard to find anyone who'll manufacture anything that supports those systems these days ;-)]]>Sep 12th 2009 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/Sep 11th 2009 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/Sep 12th 2009 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/Sep 13th 2009 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/
Do they not know what Samsung is doing?

Give us a Blu-ray player with built-in Wi-Fi for streaming directly from our computer. That's what we really want.

Anything else is old hat.]]>Sep 12th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/11/panasonic-including-divx-plus-hd-mkv-support-into-next-gen-blu/Sep 15th 2009 1:20PM