Is that it?

I bought into this because it fit my needs and I truly believed that your product had a great future. I can't understand why you would let it die on the vine. Even more, I can't understand why your presence on this site is sorely lacking. We are all loyal customers. Please interact with your supporters.

Sadly, it does seem like we've reached the end of the product's lifecycle. DivX haven't been seen here in a while, my private messages to them regarding Connected go unanswered, the forums are very quiet and obviously there's been a progressive decline in development.

As Duped indicated, we're not far from these devices going mainstream. For stand alone units, the industry is still largely targeting the archaic hard drive based model (eg WD etc). Longer term, the majority I believe will be integrated into TV's and likely work via UPnP (Tversity, Twonkymedia etc...). This was obviously the big area DivX wanted to target for licensing but sadly they seem to have been unable to make a breakthrough (one can only speculate but there was a rumour their licensing costs were too high). Their strategic efforts at the moment seem to be focused on playing catchup regarding h264.

Like Hornsea, I only use it for video as Sonos takes care of my music requirements. And certainly for video, I still consider it one of the best out there. Some dislike the PC dependent architecture but for me the big advantage is speed (and the best native GUI for any stand alone device). Take a look at the Popcorn hour and their slow HTML based experience. These other devices lack a database and browsing large movie or music collections is simply a pain in the ass. The new Xtreamer looks to me like the best alternative if you really want to move on. It has one of the lowest costs and does everything Popcorn hour does. The developers have also indicated they will release the source code so expect custom GUI's etc to make an appearance like the Popcorn hour. Longer term, the DLNA/UPnP type servers will likely come to dominate.

Mind you, for myself and most reading these forums, the best alternative would be further development of Connected! The only really big advantage IMHO (for video) with the other devices is the ability to play full 1080p, ability to fast forward MKV's + subtitles support (Kamiwa's hack gives me DTS) etc... Granted I'd love these but I'd also lose the many GUI advantages of Connected. Furthermore, while H264/MKV is the format of choice for HD, it hasn't (and likely won't) replace Xvid/DivX etc regarding SD.

Anyhow, I think I speak on behalf of a lot of Connected users in asking would DivX make any comment as to the status of the Connected project? Is it still active? Has development and support finished for good?....is this really the end of the line?

Actually I was thinking the same just the other day.
Too bad but sooner or later I will switch to another device with more capabilities.
Without the connected Jukebox plugin I would have already done that.
Seems like the further development of that plugin stopped too howether this is still the best thing that could have happened to the DSM

Would the last man out please turn off the lights and lock the door behind him.... Just when more and more network enabled devices and Tvs hit the stores Divx turn their backs on what could have been one of the best available if they'd only spent more time and a bit of extra money on product development. Shame that...