{"id":119,"date":"2008-02-18T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-02-18T13:54:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:54:44","slug":"no-blues-for-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"No Blues for Blu-Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Toshiba finally have decided to cut their losses and stop pushing their HD-DVD format, this coming about a week after Warner Bros. decided to switch their supported format to Blu-Ray.&nbsp; The porn industry switched recently as well (adult film companies are who killed Beta as well).&nbsp; Sony&#8217;s Blu-Ray support for their Playstation 3 also doesn&#8217;t help HD-DVDs cause either.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So, we can very soon put HD-DVD right next to your pile of 8mm reels, BetaMax tapes, LaserDisks, minidisk, etc.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So, why is this in my blog, why do I care?&nbsp; Well, the reason PS3s are so expensive is the Blu-Ray player.&nbsp; Once there is no longer a competing format, the prices will plummet down.&nbsp; We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Toshiba finally have decided to cut their losses and stop pushing their HD-DVD format, this coming about a week after Warner Bros. decided to switch their supported format to Blu-Ray.&nbsp; The porn industry switched recently as well (adult film companies are who killed Beta as well).&nbsp; Sony&#8217;s Blu-Ray support for their Playstation 3 also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}