{"id":197634,"date":"2008-01-21T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/more-on-the-blu-ray-hd-dvd-wars\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T01:48:00","slug":"more-on-the-blu-ray-hd-dvd-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/more-on-the-blu-ray-hd-dvd-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the Blu-Ray\/HD-DVD wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/content\/view\/35696\/97\/\">offering a $400 rebate on the purchase of a LCD TV\/Blu-ray player package<\/a>, which makes the Blu-Ray player essentially free, and <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">El Reg<\/span> is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2008\/01\/21\/hd_dvd_sales_slump\/\">US HD DVD sales are falling off a cliff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d still wait, to see if the new DVD standards catch on, or if it all loses out to downloads, but I think that HD-DVD is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony is now offering a $400 rebate on the purchase of a LCD TV\/Blu-ray player package, which makes the Blu-Ray player essentially free, and El Reg is reporting that US HD DVD sales are falling off a cliff. I&#8217;d still wait, to see if the new DVD standards catch on, or if it all loses &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1144,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-consumer-electronics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}