{"id":160,"date":"2008-01-13T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/160\/and-the-winner-is-blu-ray\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T00:12:10","slug":"and-the-winner-is-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/160\/and-the-winner-is-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Winner is &#8230; Blu-Ray!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blu-Ray\" alt=\"Blu-Ray\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog_images\/bluRay.jpg\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago, we wrote a post titled, &#8220;<a title=\"Blu-Ray or HD-DVD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/50\/blu-ray-or-hd-dvd\/\">Blu-Ray or HD-DVD<\/a>&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 The article was about the 2 high-definition formats competing for the hearts and minds of consumers.\u00c2\u00a0 This past week, events occurred that would seem to\u00c2\u00a0signal the death-blow to the HD-DVD format.\u00c2\u00a0 Hollywood movie producers, Warners Brothers, decided to back the Blu-Ray DVD and cease to produce high-resolution DVD&#8217;s in both formats.\u00c2\u00a0 Rumours have the Blu-Ray discs outselling their HD counterpart by a 2:1 ratio.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the industry players have been waiting for clear market momentum.\u00c2\u00a0 Warners actions have made backers of the HD-DVD to &#8220;rethink&#8221; their loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Beta vs. VHS faceoff in the 80&#8217;s, the winner was not determined in the marketplace by the consumers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The\u00c2\u00a0ultimate format was decided in\u00c2\u00a0the boardrooms of the\u00c2\u00a0major studios\u00c2\u00a0that were invested in the outcome of this battle.\u00c2\u00a0 It may not be long until your Video Openhouse Tour is available in hi-def on a Blu-Ray disc!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 About a year ago, we wrote a post titled, &#8220;Blu-Ray or HD-DVD&#8220;.\u00c2\u00a0 The article was about the 2 high-definition formats competing for the hearts and minds of consumers.\u00c2\u00a0 This past week, events occurred that would seem to\u00c2\u00a0signal the death-blow to the HD-DVD format.\u00c2\u00a0 Hollywood movie producers, Warners Brothers, decided to back the Blu-Ray DVD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}