Think about Sony and Atrac. You guys insult them for not supporting mp3 right away like the ipod did, but are giving apple a pass for doing the same thing with iTV. There is absolutely nothing illicit or illegal about including support for xvid/divx.
Sony not offering MP3 would be like Apple not offering MPEG or h.264. Atrac, by no means, is a standard format. As for XviD/DivX, they're like AIFF or WAV... not the standard for audio files. I'm not going to say they don't have their advantages because they do. I have a slew of XviD content on my computer. I am planning on using eyeTV in the near future. That doesn't change the story. XviD is an anti-priority for Apple. It promotes other sources of media retrieval.
BTW, I never implied that supporting XviD/DivX was illegal or even shady. I just said that it doesn't promote the iTS, which is what Apple obviously wants.
There are other boxes and other methods out there to play these formats as well as those supported by iTunes. If that's your goal, use one of them.
-Clive