An announcement that has been eagerly awaited in the DivX community: This week a company called BroadQ released a preview edition of the QCast Tuner Software, a very cool application that lets you play back DivX video to a television through your Sony Playstation 2 console. The QCast software supports all versions of DivX video at resolutions of 720x320 and below. In addition to DivX playback, QCast offers support for MP3 audio, and MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video formats. So now you can lay back on your couch, play your favorite PS2 game, watch your favorite DivX movie, and listen to your favorite songs without moving a muscle. Ah, the joys of modern life.

DivX on Sony Playstation 2