{"id":199776,"date":"2007-06-27T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/27\/hp-ships-hybrid-blu-ray-hd-dvd-drives\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:03:00","slug":"hp-ships-hybrid-blu-ray-hd-dvd-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/27\/hp-ships-hybrid-blu-ray-hd-dvd-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"HP Ships Hybrid Blu-ray\/HD DVD Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still betting (for bragging rights only) on HD-DVD, and it&#8217;s interesting that a Blue-ray early adopter, HP, is now hedging its bets.<\/p>\n<p>This runs the opposite indication as Blockbuster&#8217;s decision to go Blue-ray.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, my advice is to sit tight until one or the other conclusively wins in the next 18-24 months.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/06\/26\/hp_desktop_microsoft_super_computer\/\">HP coughs up surprise update to desktop PC range<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Kelly Fiveash<br \/>Published Tuesday 26th June 2007 11:46 GMT<\/p>\n<p>HP has quietly snuck through an update to its home desktop PC range with the computer giant now officially shipping its media centre systems with hybrid Blu-ray\/HD DVD drives.<\/p>\n<p>The firm has added the drives to both its Intel (m8010y) and AMD (m8100e) processor-powered Pavilion media centre models.<\/p>\n<p>HP&#8217;s decision to adopt the Blu-ray format, which is already backed by Sony as well as many of the Hollywood studios, alongside high definition DVD could satisfy consumers who are stuck with having to make a choice between the two competing formats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still betting (for bragging rights only) on HD-DVD, and it&#8217;s interesting that a Blue-ray early adopter, HP, is now hedging its bets. This runs the opposite indication as Blockbuster&#8217;s decision to go Blue-ray. FWIW, my advice is to sit tight until one or the other conclusively wins in the next 18-24 months. HP coughs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1144,1160,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-consumer-electronics","category-marketing","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199776"}],"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=199776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}