{"id":250,"date":"2007-12-05T08:14:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2007-12-05T08:14:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T16:14:03","slug":"microsoft-fueling-hd-wars-for-own-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/05\/microsoft-fueling-hd-wars-for-own-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Fueling HD Wars For Own Benefit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is sad and getting sadder by the moment. article from Slashdot.org:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/07\/12\/05\/1317200.shtml\">Microsoft Fueling HD Wars For Own Benefit?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/cmdrtaco.net\/\">CmdrTaco<\/a>  \ton Wednesday December 05, @09:23AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>well-they-ain&#8217;t-running-a-charity-over-there<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=97\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.widgetmonkeys.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">DaveyJJ<\/a> writes <em>&#8220;According to Transformers&#8217; director Michael Bay, in a story over on Electronista, Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars to ensure that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronista.com\/articles\/07\/12\/04\/bay.on.microsoft.hd\/\">its own downloads succeed<\/a> where physical copies fail, he says in a response to a question posed through his official forums. The producer contends that Microsoft is writing &#8220;$100 million dollar checks&#8221; to movie studios to ensure HD DVD exclusives that hurt the overall market regardless of the format&#8217;s actual merit or its popularity, preventing any one format from gaining a clear upper hand.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is sad and getting sadder by the moment. article from Slashdot.org: Microsoft Fueling HD Wars For Own Benefit? Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 05, @09:23AM from the well-they-ain&#8217;t-running-a-charity-over-there dept. DaveyJJ writes &#8220;According to Transformers&#8217; director Michael Bay, in a story over on Electronista, Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}