{"id":22,"date":"2008-02-15T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:27:54","slug":"wally-world-goes-blue-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Wally World goes Blue (Ray)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Wal-Mart has made it&#8217;s choice in the HD wars and it is going <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9873029-7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclusively to Blue Ray<\/a>. This is pretty much the last nail in the coffin for HD-DVD. And now there are rumors that Toshiba &#8211; the only maker of HD-DVD and the primary supporter of the format is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/news\/e3ib77125d96b22e86027d0bfb0c25aa58d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pull the plug<\/a> on it.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to note that the Microsoft supported format in the HD wars is all but officially DEAD and the Apple supported format WON. Looks like the Evil Empire&#8217;s stranglehold on all things is definitely crumbling.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now.<\/em><br \/><em>&#8230;. The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.&#8221;<\/em><br \/><em>&#8211; Star Wars IV &#8211; A New Hope<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Wal-Mart has made it&#8217;s choice in the HD wars and it is going exclusively to Blue Ray. This is pretty much the last nail in the coffin for HD-DVD. And now there are rumors that Toshiba &#8211; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/?p=22\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idespisemicrosoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}