{"id":197852,"date":"2008-01-07T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/07\/warner-brothers-drops-hd-dvd\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T11:06:00","slug":"warner-brothers-drops-hd-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/07\/warner-brothers-drops-hd-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Brothers Drops HD-DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I made predictions on the HD-DVD\/Blu-Ray wars (see <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>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/more-on-hd-dvdblu-ray-fight.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Generally, I&#8217;ve either bet against Sony, which is generally a safe bet, or against both, the theory that online distribution will render both formats redundant.<\/p>\n<p>Given my previous record, perhaps you want to buy stock in Sony, because <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/04\/did-warner-brothers-just-kill-hd-dvd\/index.html?ex=1357102800&amp;en=46d32731a415a723&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Warner Brothers just dropped HD-DVD as a format<\/a>.  They had been using both.<\/p>\n<p>I stand by my predictions, but my record sucks.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/more-on-hd-dvdblu-ray-fight.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I made predictions on the HD-DVD\/Blu-Ray wars (see here, here, here, here, and here). Generally, I&#8217;ve either bet against Sony, which is generally a safe bet, or against both, the theory that online distribution will render both formats redundant. Given my previous record, perhaps you want to buy stock in Sony, because Warner Brothers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1067,1064,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-communications","category-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197852"}],"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=197852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}