{"id":47,"date":"2008-02-19T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=47"},"modified":"2008-02-19T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T16:17:59","slug":"blu-ray-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2008\/blu-ray-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazingly quickly the format battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray has reached a conclusion.\u00a0 Anyone following the saga will have seen numerous reports of the demise of HD-DVD after Netflix, BestBuy and WalMart had made statements that they would be backing the Blu-ray format.\u00a0 The writing was on the wall, and many news agencies jumped the gun before Toshiba had made their official announcement &#8211; which they have now made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toshiba.co.jp\/about\/press\/2008_02\/pr1903.htm\">today: February 19th<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this works out well for the consumer now that there is only one choice.\u00a0 Currently Blu-ray players are around $400, and the media is still at a premium price over DVDs.\u00a0 It is my opinion that the players need to fall to the sub $200 range, and the media needs to average $20 a disc.<\/p>\n<p>The next threat to Blu-ray will be downloaded content.\u00a0 Both low-fi content such as YouTube as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/appletv\/rentals.html\">hi-def downloads<\/a> via services like iTunes (with Apple TV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazingly quickly the format battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray has reached a conclusion.\u00a0 Anyone following the saga will have seen numerous reports of the demise of HD-DVD after Netflix, BestBuy and WalMart had made statements that they would be backing the Blu-ray format.\u00a0 The writing was on the wall, and many news agencies jumped the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2008\/blu-ray-wins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blu-ray wins!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}