{"id":199927,"date":"2007-06-18T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/18\/blockbuster-expands-blu-ray-rentals-jun-18-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T15:48:00","slug":"blockbuster-expands-blu-ray-rentals-jun-18-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/18\/blockbuster-expands-blu-ray-rentals-jun-18-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster expands Blu-ray rentals &#8211; Jun. 18, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still believe that HD-DVD will be the winning format in the next DVD wars, given Blu-Ray&#8217;s higher costs, Sony&#8217;s traditionally incompetent marketing, and it&#8217;s Jihad against Pr0n studios, who are universally jumping on board the HD-DVD format, but this indicates that I may be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll know in 2-3 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/06\/18\/news\/companies\/blockbuster_bluray\/index.htm?postversion=2007061807\"><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Blockbuster expands Blu-ray rentals &#8211; Jun. 18, 2007<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><br \/>The movie-rental chain says it will expand the high-definition DVDs to 1,700 stores by July.<br \/>June 18 2007: 7:20 AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Blockbuster Inc. announced Monday it is expanding the inventory of high-density Blu-Ray discs to 1,700 stores by July, in response to the rising popularity of high-definition DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>The movie-rental chain said the stores will carry more than 170 titles in Blu-ray, releasing more as they are distributed by studios Also, the store will continue to offer both Blu-ray and HD DVDs through its online rental service and its initial 250 stores that currently carry the discs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still believe that HD-DVD will be the winning format in the next DVD wars, given Blu-Ray&#8217;s higher costs, Sony&#8217;s traditionally incompetent marketing, and it&#8217;s Jihad against Pr0n studios, who are universally jumping on board the HD-DVD format, but this indicates that I may be wrong. We&#8217;ll know in 2-3 years. Blockbuster expands Blu-ray rentals &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1064,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199927"}],"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=199927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}