{"id":1497,"date":"2006-05-22T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T08:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/05\/hd_launches\/"},"modified":"2006-05-22T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T08:58:18","slug":"hd_launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/hd_launches\/","title":{"rendered":"HD Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/comment\/0,,1779219,00.html\">piece<\/a> on Mediaguardian about HD, with Sky&#8217;s service launching today, and material already being available to some Telewest customers.<br \/>\nI tend to think that it won&#8217;t take off quite as quickly as some would hope, since we&#8217;ve alredy got more definition with PAL, compared to the US NTSC format. We&#8217;ve also had widescreen for quite a while now. We&#8217;re certainly all buying HD ready TVs, but that&#8217;s really a by product of the cheaper and more readily available flat screen LCD and plasma TVs that are now on the market. They&#8217;re HD ready by default.<br \/>\nUndoubtedly, some will be jumping to upgrade their Sky or Telewest systems, but for most it&#8217;ll be a natural progression rather than a quick jump. Allied to the fact that we still don&#8217;t know which format will win out in the Hi Def DVD market, complications over various DRM systems, and suddenly it&#8217;s only the early adopters who&#8217;ll be jumping in &#8211; at least until Sky end up giving away the boxes to all their customers.<br \/>\nHD won&#8217;t move as fast in Britain as some expect. Certainly not as fast as it has in the States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good piece on Mediaguardian about HD, with Sky&#8217;s service launching today, and material already being available to some Telewest customers. I tend to think that it won&#8217;t take off quite as quickly as some would hope, since we&#8217;ve alredy got more definition with PAL, compared to the US NTSC format. We&#8217;ve also had widescreen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}