{"id":1336,"date":"2006-09-11T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2006-09-11T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:05:10","slug":"home_theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Home Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon and Apple are both unveiling downloadable movie services.&nbsp; Amazon already launched its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/ref=gw_br_unbox\/104-5029385-5094316?ie=UTF8&amp;node=16261631\">Unbox<\/a> service last week and Apple is expected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/pages\/2006\/09\/20060906185220.shtml\">follow suit tomorrow<\/a>.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve already made use of iTunes&#8217; television offerings and I&#8217;m expecting that the movie store will be equally user-friendly.&nbsp; I&#8217;m less eager to try Amazon&#8217;s service after reading about its <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20060910-7704.html\">clunky interface and buggy software<\/a>.&nbsp; And unless I can burn movies to DVD, I doubt I&#8217;ll make much use of either option.&nbsp; Crowding around the computer with friends to watch a movie doesn&#8217;t sound particularly appealing to me, so I think I&#8217;ll stick with my Netflix subscription and my personal DVD library.&nbsp; Besides, if I&#8217;m not careful, I might start to grow a root system while sitting here at my desk.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon and Apple are both unveiling downloadable movie services.&nbsp; Amazon already launched its Unbox service last week and Apple is expected to follow suit tomorrow.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve already made use of iTunes&#8217; television offerings and I&#8217;m expecting that the movie store will be equally user-friendly.&nbsp; I&#8217;m less eager to try Amazon&#8217;s service after reading about its <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1336' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ly","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}