{"id":197759,"date":"2008-01-14T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/14\/toshiba-cuts-prices-on-hd-dvd-players\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T05:12:00","slug":"toshiba-cuts-prices-on-hd-dvd-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/14\/toshiba-cuts-prices-on-hd-dvd-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba Cuts Prices on HD-DVD Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Toshiba+Launches+HD+DVD+Player+Fire+Sale\/article10318.htm\">Some HD-DVD drives are now less than $100<\/a>, and the newer ones are less than $200.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s going to make a whole bunch of difference, and that, to the degree that spinning optical media will be the future of movie distribution, it looks like Sony&#8217;s Blu-Ray has won (I got that one wrong).<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you want a deal, and HD-DVD handles existing DVDs quite well, you might want to go shopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some HD-DVD drives are now less than $100, and the newer ones are less than $200. I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s going to make a whole bunch of difference, and that, to the degree that spinning optical media will be the future of movie distribution, it looks like Sony&#8217;s Blu-Ray has won (I got that &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-197759","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\/197759"}],"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=197759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}