Why upgrade if I lose DIVX?

[lectro]

I can't stand the way Windows Media recompression takes forever and sounds awful. DIVX looks and sounds fine on my machine and compresses rather quickly.

For this reason alone, I don't want to upgrade to 3.5.

Is there anything significant I'm missing (aside from multiple tuners)? The website seems to only have screenshots of the old version.

And yes, I know about the Knowledge Base article that gives the steps for command line compression, but I really hate to have to haul a monitor into the living room to work with text and I don't have a domain controller on my network so Windows won't let me share those directories.

Also, does upgrading the Windows Media player offer faster or less lossy compression codecs?

[btvbuddy]

The new Windows Media Player 10 is not gonna give you anything good, stay with DIVX if your happy - I use DIVX 320x240 for a portable player at 1500BPS and it's pretty clean (much much faster than WMV9) There are no new FAST wmv codecs - I think many are waiting for the hardware WMV encoders... Enjoy your DIVX in 3.4 and as for 3.5 DIVX it's user supported.