{"id":1554,"date":"2007-04-21T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2007-04-21T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T16:59:16","slug":"on_demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"On Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

I experimented with Netflix’s streaming video option<\/a> this afternoon. For streaming video, the quality is surprisingly good. I watched a bit of The Matrix<\/i> and a few minutes of an Outer Limits<\/i> episode. I didn’t notice any artifacting or skipping, and the image quality isn’t much below that of a standard television. All of the video seems to be formatted for a regular 4:3 screen, which looks goofy on my widescreen monitor. And the content selection is not terribly compelling, but I’m sure that will improve in time. <\/p>\n

I have tickets to The Merchant of Venice<\/i> at the Guthrie this evening. I’m in the mood for some good old-fashioned analog entertainment. And it will be a lovely evening for a walk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I experimented with Netflix’s streaming video option this afternoon. For streaming video, the quality is surprisingly good. I watched a bit of The Matrix and a few minutes of an Outer Limits episode. I didn’t notice any artifacting or skipping, and the image quality isn’t much below that of a standard television. All of the […]<\/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-1554","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-p4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","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=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}