Casio's Exilim EX-S600D with DivX

The DivX conspiracy is continuing, and this time its Casio bringing a DivX capable product to "anywhere but the US." Their new Exilim EX-S600D for Europe merely adds DivX to their already snazzy EX-S600 from earlier this year, but USA citizens are apparently too slow to figure out what to do with a good compression codec. All the other specs of this 6 megapixel shooter are still around, and the camera is as thin as ever. The S600D boasts an hour of recording time onto a 1GB card, and has the same "Past Movie" function of the S600 to start recording 5 seconds before you press the record button. No word on price, but we're guessing it'll be similar to the S600 -- just, you know, in Europe.

[BernardMarx @ Jun 26th 2006 9:52AM]

About time we in Europe got something special except a "special" price.

[Roban @ Jun 26th 2006 10:23AM]

Amen to that BernardMarx.
That camera sure looks sweet.

[Benson Leung @ Jun 26th 2006 10:36AM]

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.

[Jason @ Jun 26th 2006 12:57PM]

US will be getting this camera in a few months.

[Finished.Law.School @ Jun 26th 2006 1:09PM]

Is it safe to assume that someone in the US can purchase this on ebay once it is released in Europe?

[Reginald @ Jun 26th 2006 1:10PM]

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!

[Walt @ Jun 27th 2006 12:54AM]

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?

[Johannes @ Jun 27th 2006 4:14AM]

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...

[paul @ Jul 14th 2006 4:43AM]

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.