KiSS DP-600 coming soon to the U.S.

Stopping by the Linksys booth at Digital Experience yielded a KiSS, but no hug for us. The KiSS DP-600 is a geared for Europe as a networked DVD player capable of 1920 x 1080 ouput. Now that Linksys owns KiSS Technologies, the booth informed us of a comparable model here in the States. Do we really need another 802.11g media-player device? Perhaps we do if the new model is as loving towards different video formats as the DP-600. Aside from the standard MPEG-2 and -4 playback, you get most every DivX flavor including DivX HD. We'll watch and see for pricing as we're not expected to see this on our shores for a little while yet.

[Charbax @ Jan 5th 2006 10:12AM]

KiSS previously announced they would release the worlds first high definition h264 player:



http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=KiSS+Technology+h264



Too bad if the DP-600 does not include h264 codec in high definition support. Then we'd have to wait a few months more for the DP-700 to come. I think that this device might be totally future proof when it has h264-HD.

[Black Ninja @ Jan 5th 2006 10:57AM]

I though KISS was bought by Cisco, not by linksys. Linksys is also bought by Cisco ...

Not?

[Justin Thyme @ Jan 5th 2006 11:21AM]

Yes, that is right Black Ninja, and it is most telling that the booth apparently did not draw attention to that fact. It would be prudent to watch what Cisco has in mind for Kiss. Possibly there will be a Sci-Atl Kiss technology convergence sometime in the future.

[NNTPgrip @ Jan 5th 2006 12:04PM]

I just hope that they don't release it in "linksys blue".



I thoughtwe were supoosed to start interpreting "Standard MPEG-4" as h.264 already as his holiness Steve Jobs proclaimed last year. So in that realm of understanding, this player supports h.264, any other MPEG-4 wrappers/varients must be then mentioned by name (Divx, Xvid)

[The Jeremy @ Jan 5th 2006 2:51PM]

Ah, but will it upscale your standard definition MPEG2/MPEG4/Divx/Xvid files to 1080i output? That would be a true test to its abilities...



And, is there an internal hard drive port/slot like prior Kiss DVD players?



And...will the player when it reaches the States be branded as "Kiss", "Linksys", "Scientific Atlanta" or "Cisco"?

[Klaus @ Jan 5th 2006 6:44PM]

Did you know that this player dp-600 was on ces 2004, ces 2005 and now on ces 2006.

[Martin Kliehm @ Jan 6th 2006 5:13AM]

You can actually buy the DP-600 in Germany starting at 313 Euros (http://www2.preissuchmaschine.de/psm2_frontend/main.asp?suche=dp-600). Though some customer reviews reported insufficient data rates on a network (no info about their setup), and the DP-600 can play HD DivX, but no HD DVDs or Blu-Ray. That doesn't make much sense. If it's HD I would expect the player to be able to play some flavor of HD DVDs as well!