{"id":352,"date":"2008-10-30T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=352"},"modified":"2008-10-30T00:32:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T04:32:11","slug":"zds-robin-harris-proclaims-death-of-bd-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/10\/30\/zds-robin-harris-proclaims-death-of-bd-already\/","title":{"rendered":"ZD&#8217;s Robin Harris proclaims death of BD already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/storage\/?p=365&amp;tag=nl.e550\">Blu-ray is dead &#8211; heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robin, what gives?\u00a0 Ok, it&#8217;s been 8 months since the format war ended, but jeez did you really expect the price to match those of DVDs already?\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 Eight months ago, BD players were $500.\u00a0 Now you can get them for $270\/$300 on average, cheaper if you look around.\u00a0 Yes, BDs cost more now, but so did DVDs when they came out.\u00a0 I bought my first DVD player, a Toshiba when prices hit the $250 mark.\u00a0 That was close to 10 years ago.\u00a0 (wow, has it really been that long?)\u00a0 DVDs weren&#8217;t exactly cheap back then either.\u00a0 It will take time, but the prices will eventually come down.\u00a0 And about it not being worth it, puh-leeze!\u00a0 Even if you&#8217;re not an AV snob, the picture is amazing.\u00a0 Something a DVD (upconverted or not) certainly isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong.\u00a0 DVDs are still great, but they&#8217;re from a different era.\u00a0 480i is still going to look dull and blurry no matter what you do to it when compared with even 720p.\u00a0 Robin makes some good points about the high price of production, but get real; this isn&#8217;t going to last forever.\u00a0 A year from now, BDs will be a lot more mainstream.\u00a0 DVDs are already on their way to the bargain bin and once the switch to DTV happens next year I think you&#8217;ll see a lot more people looking seriously at HD sets and media players.\u00a0 I just have to add one last thing, HD content streaming in the U.S. is going nowhere.\u00a0 As long as providers keep holding people back with their bandwidth caps and limited connectivity options, internet-based HD streaming won&#8217;t become a true alternative to disc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blu-ray is dead &#8211; heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com Robin, what gives?\u00a0 Ok, it&#8217;s been 8 months since the format war ended, but jeez did you really expect the price to match those of DVDs already?\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2008\/10\/30\/zds-robin-harris-proclaims-death-of-bd-already\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[109,42],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blu-ray","tag-hd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}