{"id":1316,"date":"2008-02-18T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/finally-i-can-make-another-unnecessary-consumer-electronics-purchase\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T10:43:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:43:22","slug":"finally-i-can-make-another-unnecessary-consumer-electronics-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/finally-i-can-make-another-unnecessary-consumer-electronics-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, I can make another unnecessary consumer electronics purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Those who know me know that I am a total electronics junkie.  But I am also a sort-of rational consumer, so I&#8217;ve been waiting (and waiting) for this darn high-definition DVD format war to end.  And it looks like it has&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/18\/technology\/18toshiba.html?_r=1&#038;ex=1361077200&#038;en=2a6a798e29e32f30&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\">Toshiba to Give Up on HD Format, Ceding Field to Sony &#8211; New York Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yay.  Of course, now I apparently have to wait until the end of this year, when &#8220;Blu-Ray 2.0&#8221; is released&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who know me know that I am a total electronics junkie. But I am also a sort-of rational consumer, so I&#8217;ve been waiting (and waiting) for this darn high-definition DVD format war to end. And it looks like it has&#8230; Toshiba to Give Up on HD Format, Ceding Field to Sony &#8211; New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[31,3],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-shopping","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-le","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}