{"id":251,"date":"2006-04-18T23:34:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T06:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=251"},"modified":"2007-05-02T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T23:42:35","slug":"early-adopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/early-adopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Adopter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IMDb Studio Briefing reported today that “HD DVD To Debut Today”<\/a>. So I ran over to Best Buy and picked one up. Seriously. Here it is:<\/p>\n


\n\"Serenity
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

No, I don’t have a player yet. That never stopped me from buying PlayStation or Xbox games just for studying the multimedia (that was different because I still have computer hardware that can read the raw sectors). Best Buy also had players available but I do not intend to get any hardware until an HD-DVD ROM drive becomes available. Ah, the burden of early adoption. <\/p>\n

Best Buy had the HD-DVD material in the high-end home theater department. I asked if they had any HD-DVDs in yet. The employee said the titles were behind the counter but then eyed me suspiciously and asked if I was from Toshiba. I’m not sure what that exchange was about but after I assured him that I was sincerely interested in a purchase he brought out the 3 launch titles– Serenity<\/a>, The Phantom of the Opera<\/a>, and The Last Samurai<\/a>. I certainly wasn’t the only early adopter. At this same time, there were other customers entering the same department asking for the HD-DVD player and all 3 launch titles. Take another look at those 3 launch titles. Do you think that anyone would actually like all 3 of those movies? My guess is that these people were really interested in the purchase simply for the sake of having the latest technology.<\/p>\n

Their demo HD-DVD players were doing duty with some sort of demo material with a split screen that contrasted high definition vs. standard definition. The demo struck me as — what’s the word — bogus<\/em>. Come on– standard definition can’t possibly look that<\/strong> bad<\/em>. Can you say “blur filter”? <\/p>\n

Click [more] to see scans of everything in the case so you know what the next generation looks like.<\/p>\n

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Click on images for all of the fine detail you could hope for.<\/p>\n

\"Serenity
\nThe actual HD-DVD disc.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Serenity
\nThe Serenity jewel case cover.<\/a> Note the URL http:\/\/www.copyprotected.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Insert
\nThe jewel case insert — outside<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Insert
\nThe jewel case insert — inside<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Insert
\nAnd the receipt of sale.<\/a> Hey, DVD Jon can get sentimental about this stuff, why not I?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Got me a HD-DVD…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}