Casio's Exilim EX-S600D with DivX
By Paul Miller 
posted Jun 26th 2006 9:30AM
posted Jun 26th 2006 9:30AM
posted Jun 26th 2006 9:30AM
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About time we in Europe got something special except a "special" price.
Amen to that BernardMarx.
That camera sure looks sweet.
This is great that a camera finally supports DIVX.
While most people would associate DIVX with pirating movies and other illicit video, in reality DIVX is nothing more than an excellent encoder for the industry standard MPEG-4 advanced simple profile. XVID is an example of another open source Mpeg-4 ASP encoder.
MPEG-4 ASP SHOULD be a more common standard codec that all consumer electronics should support. Why it hasn't has boggled me as of late.
US will be getting this camera in a few months.
Is it safe to assume that someone in the US can purchase this on ebay once it is released in Europe?
I currently have the the EX-S500 and convert all its high quality MPEG4 movies (MPEG4 Simple Profile V2) into DivX to share the files with others. DivX encoding, while it takes longer to run 2-pass encoding on the PC, cuts the Exilim MPEG4 files down to about 1/3 the size. With the current MPEG4 ASP V2 I can record about 70 mins on a 2GB chip so at least the file sizes on the 600D are smaller. Hopefully the DivX encoding on the camera will be at the same level of quality.
Hopefully also this will come out soon in the USA as well.
Go DivX!
My favorite "illegal to purchase in the US but available via Ebay from an overseas supplier"
is those cool little keychain lights that have tritium gas inside, allowing them to glow for ten years.
I'm not in the market for a point and shoot, but I'd be interested to know if space saving is the only consideration for DivX photos... I assume that small movies on the fly is the main attraction here?
Anyone care to guess the real-world difference between this and the MPEG4 encoding of the existing EX-S600? File size, quality? I was just about to buy an EX-S600 when I saw this...
Apparently it is only available to buy online and is restricted to Germanay and France. Reason being UK DVD players don't all support DivX right now. Seems a little odd since most people I believe use DivX on their PC's. I tried the German Amazon site, but it will only ship it to Germany or Austria. If anyone knows of stockists please post them here.