DivX on your XBox 360? There’s still hope

Just when we thought that Microsoft probably forgot all about the Xbox 360 gamers clamoring for DivX support in their systems, we hear a very promising statement from Kevin Hell himself, the Acting Chief Executive Officer for DivX. While his delivery of the statement made it sound as if it wasn’t something that should be mentioned, just reading those words already gives us that warm, fuzzy feeling of hope that someday, we will get to play our favorite videos in the Xbox 360.

People wished for it. People made a petition for it. However, it’s been almost a year since rumors about DivX support for the Xbox 360 came out, and it’s almost safe to say that Microsoft already forgot about Xbox 360 owners patiently waiting for them to add support for the popular media format in their consoles. However, there’s is now a ray of hope that may give Xbox gamers to believe that yes, there will be DivX format support to come to the Xbox very, very soon.

In the Q&A portion of DivX’s presentation at the JP Morgan SmNid cap conference, an analyst from JP Morgan, Paul Coster, managed to get a very juicy comment from DivX’s Acting Chief Executive Officer Kevin Hell. When asked about the possibility of the Xbox finally supporting the DivX codec, here’s what Hell said (in verbatim):

“Yes! that, uh, we’re in discussions with Microsoft on that at this point in time, so I can’t go into any great detail on that. Um that is not a certified, that is not a certified or licensed product at this time.”

It’s certainly a very promising statement, and we clearly just couldn’t wait for the moment that we can finally play most of our videos with our Xbox 360s. Do take note that this is in no way a confirmation however, so stick around while we gather more clues.

Via JP Morgan