{"id":1938,"date":"2006-02-24T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2006-02-24T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T23:08:14","slug":"hd-dvd-and-hdtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/hd-dvd-and-hdtv\/","title":{"rendered":"HD-DVD and HDTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I said before, I continue to tell people NOT to buy HDTV sets for various reasons&#8230; one of which is the fact that the HDTV &#8220;standard&#8221; is a bit of a moving target.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago at CES, 1080-progressive, or 1080p, had become popular&#8230; (not there was any content for that format as the 1080p format isn&#8217;t supported via ATSC or QAM as far as I know)&#8230; turns out that 1080p will be supported in the new hi-def DVD formats coming up.<\/p>\n<p>So lots of people I&#8217;m sure started buying 1080p televisions to make sure that they&#8217;ll be able to display the new Hi-Def DVD material&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But as it goes, the Hi-Def industry has moved the cheese again, and even if you have 1080p capable tv set, you probably won&#8217;t be able to display any HD-DVD content since they changed the DRM spec&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/02\/24\/1333207&#038;from=rss\" target=\"_blank\">HD DVD to Screw Early HDTV Adopters <\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I imagine that the HDTV &#8220;standard&#8221; will evolve a few more times before its done&#8230; so to hold me over until then, I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/riggedup.textamerica.com\/?r=4269092\" target=\"_blank\">four standard-def TV&#8217;s<\/a> the other day that were on sale.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said before, I continue to tell people NOT to buy HDTV sets for various reasons&#8230; one of which is the fact that the HDTV &#8220;standard&#8221; is a bit of a moving target. A couple of years ago at CES, 1080-progressive, or 1080p, had become popular&#8230; (not there was any content for that format [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}