{"id":264,"date":"2009-04-22T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T04:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T00:43:07","slug":"day-and-date-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Day and Date everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros says that it is proposing to release &#8216;day and date&#8217; (where this term comes from I don&#8217;t know, but it means &#8216;on the same day&#8217;) <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0421715\/\">The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/a><\/em> in just about all possible formats on 3 June 2009. That is, it will be released as a DVD, and as a Blu-ray, plus Foxtel Box Pay Per View, iTunes, Bigpond and, says Warner, &#8216;the online presence of various rental chains&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>One of the official reasons is: &#8216;we are offering a legitimate alternative to piracy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a good idea to me. I don&#8217;t like the idea of Pay Per View, not the various on-line distribution mechanisms. But I&#8217;m all in favour of customer choice. Offer it all ways and let customers choose the format that best suits them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros says that it is proposing to release &#8216;day and date&#8217; (where this term comes from I don&#8217;t know, but it means &#8216;on the same day&#8217;) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in just about all possible formats on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=264\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}