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Not sure why you’d need it, but you can have one set top box that can play Blu-ray and DivX video.  LG has put together these two technologies in its LG BD390.

This might actually make some sense.  Every electronics manufacturer needs to do something to differentiate their products from their competitors.  Samsung’s got its “Touch of Color” line of electronics and LG puts together technologies in one box.  It’s a safe bet to say that Blu-ray players were picked up by tech-savvy people.  Adding in DivX support will grab some more technophiles. 

The player will be able to decode up to 1080p videos over the network (it even has built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi), a DVD, or USB device.  I’ve seen some samples of HD DivX video and it’s pretty impressive.  You can get some nice quality video in a small file.  Maybe it’s not so crazy after all.  It’s available now for $450.

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