{"id":830,"date":"2011-03-21T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T00:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/?p=830"},"modified":"2011-03-21T20:26:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T00:26:26","slug":"blu-ray-a-bag-of-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/2011\/03\/blu-ray-a-bag-of-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray a bag of hurt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/4012540846\">new blog post by Marco<\/a> looked at Blu-ray and whether it is a bag of hurt as Steve Jobs puts it. <\/p>\n<p>Well I have to admit that I recently purchased a Philips Blu-ray player. But it was open box and cost less than $90, so the player itself wasn&#8217;t too bad. But last weekend I rented a Blu-ray movie to watch and then found out that the extra features are not available because this is a &#8220;rental&#8221; disk. Basically, I have to pay over $20 for a Blu-ray disk for any additional contents. I would say $20+ for a Blu-ray movie, and rental disk have no extra features, hurts, my feels and would hurt my wallet. <\/p>\n<p>Yes the 1080p resolution looked great on my HDTV. I have Apple TV 2 as well. The 720p rental from iTunes is not that bad compared to 1080p, but definitely not as good. I think currently the iTunes movie rental is also overpriced. $4.99 a pop for a 720p HD recent release. I would not pay for that. I can play Netflix on it too. But the quality is generally even worse. <\/p>\n<p>With net neutrality basically dead, I wonder how much we would have to pay for the greedy entertainment industry in the future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new blog post by Marco looked at Blu-ray and whether it is a bag of hurt as Steve Jobs puts it. Well I have to admit that I recently purchased a Philips Blu-ray player. But it was open box and cost less than $90, so the player itself wasn&#8217;t too bad. But last weekend&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/2011\/03\/blu-ray-a-bag-of-hurt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blu-ray a bag of hurt?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,9],"tags":[212,213,214,257],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-movie","category--apple","tag-blu-ray","tag-drm","tag-hd","tag-movie","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}