{"id":197808,"date":"2008-01-10T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/10\/matthew-saroffs-hall-of-failed-predictions-exhibit-38745\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:05:00","slug":"matthew-saroffs-hall-of-failed-predictions-exhibit-38745","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/10\/matthew-saroffs-hall-of-failed-predictions-exhibit-38745\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Saroff&#8217;s Hall of Failed Predictions: Exhibit 38,745"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was certain that, if there were a winner in the HD-DVD\/Blu-Ray wars, it would be HD-DVD. ( <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/there-may-be-no-winner-in-hd-dvdblu-ray.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/blockbuster-expands-blu-ray-rentals-jun.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/hp-ships-hybrid-blu-rayhd-dvd-drives.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/blu.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/more-on-hd-dvdblu-ray-fight.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/warner-brothers-drops-hd-dvd.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cheaper tech, and it&#8217;s not controlled by Sony.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the New York Times is now reporting that<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/10\/hd-dvds-fall-like-dominoes\/?ref=technology\">NBC Universal and Paramount are seriously considering a switch to Blu-Ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not wrong yet, but it seems likely that I will be in the next 12-18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the end of the HD-DVD\/Blu-Ray wars has always seemed to be 12-18 months away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was certain that, if there were a winner in the HD-DVD\/Blu-Ray wars, it would be HD-DVD. ( here, here, here, here, here, and here) It&#8217;s a cheaper tech, and it&#8217;s not controlled by Sony. Well, the New York Times is now reporting thatNBC Universal and Paramount are seriously considering a switch to Blu-Ray. I&#8217;m &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1067,1047,1064,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-communications","category-corrections","category-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197808"}],"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=197808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}