{"id":222,"date":"2006-03-13T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T02:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=222"},"modified":"2006-03-14T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T17:36:11","slug":"hd-dvds-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/hd-dvds-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"HD-DVDs Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came across on the IMDb Studio Briefing today that Warner Bros., who had planned to first out the gate with HD-DVD movie titles on March 28, won&#8217;t be: <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/news\/sb\/2006-03-13\/#film5\">Warner Home Video Delays High-Def Releases<\/a>. The brief article doesn&#8217;t indicate when Warner Bros. intends to go ahead with the releases. Thus, for those of you ordering your new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toshibadirect.com\/td\/b2c\/toshibadirect.to?page=ces06_hddvd&#038;se\">HD-DVD-capable Toshiba Qosmio laptop<\/a> (when Toshiba slaps a model number on it and announces shipment), you have a little more time to make sure Linux runs on it before you try reading a next-generation optical disc.<\/p>\n<p>What are the launch titles supposed to be? According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HD-DVD#March_28.2C_2006\">Wikipedia&#8217;s entry<\/a> on the matter (is there <em>anything<\/em> the grand oracle Wikipedia can not tell?), <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0372784\/\"><em>Batman Begins<\/em><\/a> is one of the handful of titles slated. Figures. I just got that on DVD a month ago. Now I will have to re-buy it on HD-DVD.<\/p>\n<p>About that Qosmio laptop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-on-laptops.com\/toshiba.html\">Linux on Laptops&#8217; Toshiba page<\/a> lists entries for models E15, G10, and G20. The 2 Qosmio models available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toshibadirect.com\/\">ToshibaDirect.com<\/a> are the G25 and G35. The specs of the G35 sound similar to what&#8217;s on offer with the new, HD-DVD-equipped, model-number-not-yet-announced Qosmio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so fast with that new format&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia-presswatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}