{"id":129,"date":"2008-02-18T19:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T02:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-02-18T19:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T02:49:41","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOT HD DVD!!! It\u2019s been a long time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=128\">but here I was talking<\/a> about the format war of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD back in October of 2005. It\u2019s been a long and drawn out fight, but Blu-Ray appears to be the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is being all nonchalant about it saying &#8220;We do not believe the recent reports about HD DVD will have any material impact on the Xbox 360 platform or our position in the marketplace,&#8221; as reported by eWeek.<\/p>\n<p>You know they\u2019ve got to change their drawers. They picked the losing side. I\u2019ve got to admit, even though I thought Blu-Ray was the better technology, I still figured HD-DVD would win just because they were cheaper. Microsoft apparently thought so too in order to include the players for their Xbox consoles.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still in no rush to go out and buy a Blu-Ray player yet. I watch all my HD movies either with Pay-Per-View or Apple TV rentals. It\u2019s not often that I want to watch an older movie. I would only use a Blu-Ray player to watch new releases. That just kind of follows right? You can put older movies on to Blu-Ray, but they won\u2019t be in real HD because the originals weren\u2019t. They just upscale the signal.<br \/>\nIf cable companies have their way, they may end up charging us for our download capacity. Then it may end up being cheaper for me to rent movies on Blu-Ray than  it would be to download rentals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOT HD DVD!!! It\u2019s been a long time, but here I was talking about the format war of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD back in October of 2005. It\u2019s been a long and drawn out fight, but Blu-Ray appears to be the winner. Microsoft is being all nonchalant about it saying &#8220;We do not believe the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iweb-import-07-08"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}