DivX and Yamaha today announced at the IFA trade show the worldwide launch of Yamaha DivX Plus HD Certified Blu-ray players. These new 3D-ready players enable playback of full 1080p DivX Plus HD video using the MKV container.

Yamaha's new line of Blu-ray players are 3D-ready and feature universal playback (BD, SA-CD, DVD-Audio/Video, CD). The BD-S1067 will be available in Europe to start, and Yamaha plans to launch additional DivX HD Certified Blu-ray player models in North America, Oceania and other areas in the future.

Available on www.divx.com, DivX Plus Software allows users to create and playback H.264 video in an .mkv file container. DivX Plus HD Certified devices will playback all previous versions of DivX video and DivX Plus HD video files with the .mkv file extension and AAC audio created with third-party tools.