A press release today from Sandisk has announced that they have signed an agreement to use the DivX codecs in their Sansa players.

This means that the video capable Sansa’s will be able to re-play DivX content, a major improvement over the MJpeg that they currently support.

Should be interesting to see if the Sansa range increases from just solid state to include HDD players.

SAN DIEGO & MILPITAS, CA, June 26th, 2007 — DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) and SanDisk^® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced a licensing agreement allowing SanDisk to include DivX^® technology in SanDisk’s Sansa^® line of video-enabled products.

As a result of the partnership, future SanDisk video products can now include interoperability with the DivX Stage6 video website. This partnership is designed to provide SanDisk consumers with seamless access to the growing library of professional and user-generated video content available today in the popular DivX format.

“This partnership aims to allow our customers to take full advantage of innovative video features and content found only through DivX,” said Daniel Schreiber, Senior Vice-President and General Manager for SanDisk’s Audio Video Business Unit.

“Our agreement with SanDisk brings together pioneering consumer electronics with DivX’s expertise for digital video,” said Kevin Hell, President of DivX, Inc. “Adding DivX to the Sansa product line’s arsenal of features will provide cutting-edge media capabilities to consumers, and strengthen the common media language we’re building through the open DivX ecosystem.”

Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone a rigorous testing programme to ensure a high-quality DivX media experience, including reliable video playback, interoperability with other DivX Certified devices and the high visual quality users expect from DivX.

SanDisk expects to announce plans later this year for DivX support in its product lines.

I’ve just noticed that the Radeon Catalyst 7.6 drivers are out and about.

Pop along to ATI’s download page to grab em.

I bumped into the Zattoo player recently. After a little playing around I’ve decided that it’s quite a good little technology.

It streams Live TV (in the UK BBC1/BBC2/BBC3/BBC4 and some others).

The technology is a proprietary P2P platform.

It connects quickly, and the quality is lovely in comparison to some of the other P2P video platforms.

Pop along and sign up for the beta, it’s certainly worth playing with. If some more of the channels from the UK/European are come on line it will be cracking.

The small issue at the moment, is to keep the broadcasters happy they limit the streams to local broadcasters, and those that don’t mind being broadcast in other territories. This stops us in the UK from receiving US and some European broadcasts.

Yup Garfield is officially 29 years old.

I bumped into TVUPlayer yesterday as I wanted to watch the Le Mans 24 hours and it was not show on the UK FTA channels.

It seems Speed TV was showing it however, and as I mentioned on my post at F1-Blog TVU was able to show it.

After that I have dug around, and there is a little hack to get it working on your Media Center PC.

First Install TVU on a spare PC (or the MCE box).

Launch it and start watching the channel you want.

Now create a text file called TVU.asx and put in it http://IPADDRESS_OF_TVU:8901

Now just pop that text file in an area watched by My Video and click it, job done streaming to the MCE.

Has arrived, and from what I can see (posting this), is nice, shiny and new.

It’s got a much more polished feel to it (inline spell checker etc), and certainly now looks more like a modern Windows Application than it did previously.

If you have been using Beta 1, then please go and get Beta 2. If you disliked Beta 1, then try Beta 2, you never know, it may be more your thing now.

Oh, and importantly for me, there is now native support for MOSS 2007.

So I thought I would post a link to Google TiSP.

Them Google boys have FAR too much free time on there hands.