{"id":829,"date":"2007-04-11T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2007-04-11T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:08:51","slug":"the-hd-format-war-already-coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"The HD format war already coming to an end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been saying pretty much from the start that eventually there will be dual format HD DVD\/Blu-ray players. But I wasn&#8217;t expecting it for maybe three or four years. Well, the pace of technological improvement continues to accelerate, and already there is a hybrid HD DVD\/Blu-ray player from LG (in the United States, anyway). <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/home-entertainment\/first-review-lg-bh100-hybrid-blurayhddvd-player-verdict-format-war-still-blazing-231149.php\">Apparently the LG BH100 is less than perfect<\/a>, but that&#8217;s unimportant. What is important is the proof of concept.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Warner Bros (which supports both HD DVD and Blu-ray) <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/home-entertainment\/total-hd-disc-format-from-warner-bros-combines-bluray-hd-dvd-into-one-disc-225962.php\">has announced a new hybrid disc with both HD DVD and Blu-ray content<\/a>. If these work okay that will deal with the one remaining problem of the two formats: inventory management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been saying pretty much from the start that eventually there will be dual format HD DVD\/Blu-ray players. But I wasn&#8217;t expecting it for maybe three or four years. Well, the pace of technological improvement continues to accelerate, and already &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=829\">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":[3,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}