{"id":3084,"date":"2011-12-08T19:19:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T19:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2011-12-08T19:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T19:19:49","slug":"picture_perfect_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"Picture Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Ridley Scott comments on the state of streaming movies and how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ridley-scott\/film-viewing-blu-ray_b_1132350.html\">streaming is still no substitute for physical media<\/a> (and Blu-ray in particular). While I certainly enjoy the convenience of streaming, I can&#8217;t disagree with Scott&#8217;s argument. Nearly every film I&#8217;ve streamed on Netflix has suffered from pixelization and blurry camera sweeps. It&#8217;s great for old television shows, but I still prefer to watch movies in Blu-ray format. I&#8217;ve even begun purchasing more Blu-rays recently because I think the format will be a standard for at least another decade before streaming can begin to compete. <\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lord-Rings-Fellowship-Extended-Editions\/dp\/B0026L7H20\/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1323393468&amp;sr=1-1\"><i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i> Blu-ray set<\/a>. It looks and sounds spectacular. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Ridley Scott comments on the state of streaming movies and how streaming is still no substitute for physical media (and Blu-ray in particular). While I certainly enjoy the convenience of streaming, I can&#8217;t disagree with Scott&#8217;s argument. Nearly every film I&#8217;ve streamed on Netflix has suffered from pixelization and blurry camera sweeps. It&#8217;s great <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3084' 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-3084","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-NK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","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=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}