{"id":9006,"date":"2006-06-15T01:18:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2006-06-15T01:18:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T01:18:36","slug":"hd-movies-ready-to-take-one-for-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9006","title":{"rendered":"HD Movies: Ready to Take One for the Team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HDBeat, a voice we respect in all things high-def and next-gen TV, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hdbeat.com\/2006\/06\/14\/ten-reasons-you-need-to-be-an-early-adopter-of-a-high-def-movie\/\" target=\"new\">discusses<\/a> and links to a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhometheater.com\/howto\/early_adopter\/index.html\" target=\"new\">top ten reasons you NEED to be an early adopter<\/a> of an HD movie format. The argument basically boils down to: you need to &#8220;vote&#8221; on one format (HD DVD or Blu-ray) with your checkbook and &#8220;take one for the team&#8221; in terms of early adoption problems and pricing, &#8217;cause if you don&#8217;t, one format will never shake out and prices won&#8217;t come down (and movie libraries will stay small). Personally, I&#8217;m with this guy (from the HD Beat item&#8217;s Comments):<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;?#$% the studios and the manufacturers. If they lose money because they were too narrow minded and greedy to make a smart decision, I&#8217;m not going to lose sleep over it. The studios should have forced a single format in the first place. Now everyone has to muddle through years of competing formats and partial library releases on different formats. I love HD and gadgets as much as the next guy but I&#8217;m not going to spend a dime until something big happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HDBeat, a voice we respect in all things high-def and next-gen TV, discusses and links to a list of top ten reasons you NEED to be an early adopter of an HD movie format. The argument basically boils down to: you need to &#8220;vote&#8221; on one format (HD DVD or Blu-ray) with your checkbook and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9006\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HD Movies: Ready to Take One for the Team?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}