{"id":85,"date":"2003-08-28T01:57:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T06:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2003-08-28T01:57:23","modified_gmt":"2003-08-28T06:57:23","slug":"dvd-players-look-how-far-weve-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2003\/08\/28\/dvd-players-look-how-far-weve-come\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Players, look how far we&#8217;ve come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of my last post about the Two Towers DVD and our DVD player, I did some searching on it and found this gem of an article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/popularmechanics.com\/technology\/television\/1997\/11\/All_DVD_to_Me\/\" Target=\"_blank\">popularmechanics.com\/technology\/television\/1997\/11\/All_DVD_to_Me\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, it&#8217;s been over six months since DVD players finally hit stores. Lots of manufacturers seem to have their hands in the DVD pot of honey, and, although it&#8217;s still not really mainstream technology yet, those of you in search of the best audio and video quality around are probably seriously contemplating buying one of these players\u2014if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p>However, just to make things a bit more confusing for you, Toshiba is the first to announce a second generation of DVD players, and Sony has announced a new, lower-priced DVD player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LOL<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s similar to our player, the Sony one. We paid $599 for it too, an outrageous price. Our first DVD we bought was &#8220;Zorro&#8221;, there wasn&#8217;t much choice on the DVD purchasing scene. We knew it was a good format though, so we got in early.<\/p>\n<p>Our player is the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sel.sony.com\/digitalimages\/photo?photo_id=134190\" target=\"_blank\">DVP C650D<\/a>, it&#8217;s a five carousel, and that&#8217;s the feature we wanted, mulitple disc capable. We have a newer one, a Pioneer, in the family room, which is similar, but much newer.  Anhow, the link above is to a picture of our machine, the remote pic isn&#8217;t right though, it&#8217;s nearly right, but missing the 5 disc feature buttons in the middle, where there is space. Ours is numbered RMT-D112A.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ve had this player since sometime in 1998. I It&#8217;s been great. It still has good features. It&#8217;s still useful. It&#8217;s kind of aged, but it sure doesn&#8217;t look it, except for how big it is compared to our Pioneer 5-disc player. When things are new tech, they are big, they get better, and that usually mens they get smaller in some way.<\/p>\n<p>Lighter, thinner, but better. Like monitors. Amazing stuff this all is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of my last post about the Two Towers DVD and our DVD player, I did some searching on it and found this gem of an article: <a href=\"http:\/\/popularmechanics.com\/technology\/television\/1997\/11\/All_DVD_to_Me\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">popularmechanics.com\/technology\/television\/1997\/11\/All_DVD_to_Me\/<\/a> &#8220;So, it&#8217;s been over six months since DVD players finally hit stores. Lots of manufacturers seem to have their hands in the DVD pot of honey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2003\/09\/03\/the-two-towers-ch-51-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":0},"title":"The Two Towers Ch 51 again","author":"Maisy","date":"Wednesday, September 3, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know why, but suddenly, after posting this, I think \"Area 51\". I'm no UFO conspiracy buff either. Oh well, worth inserting. Ho Hum. On to the actual post. I posted first about it here Many people have come to view that post from searching on different search sites.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/movies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":84,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2003\/08\/28\/the-two-towers-on-dvd\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":1},"title":"The Two Towers on DVD","author":"Maisy","date":"Thursday, August 28, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"We dutifully purchased and viewed this DVD, The Two Towers, widescreen edition , on the day of it's release, Tuesday, August 26, 2003. What happened throughout was not understood until stark awakement at the end when it was bad. The DVD, brand new, was jumping a bit, then really bad.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/movies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":90,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2003\/09\/08\/the-two-towers-dvd-pt-ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":2},"title":"The Two Towers DVD &#8211; PT II","author":"Maisy","date":"Monday, September 8, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"We returned our second copy of TTT DVD a few days ago. I didn't open until yesterday, just not wanting to find disappointment with it [see previous post and comments]. So I waited until I was curious enough not to be thrown off by the result it would bring about.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/movies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3318,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2018\/04\/30\/a-dvd-is-not-a-blu-ray\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":3},"title":"A DVD is not a Blu-ray","author":"Maisy","date":"Monday, April 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Disc,\u00a0CD,\u00a0DVD, Blu-ray These words are not all interchangeable. No. Not at all. Disc is the first word. It is what each following word is. Saying \"disc\" means one of those formats, not a specific one though. Disc is an optical disc. [In other computing terms: Disk is a Hard Drive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computer and Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computer and Internet","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/computer-and-internet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2010\/10\/20\/dvd-software-printers-and-scanners\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":4},"title":"DVD Software, Printers and Scanners","author":"Maisy","date":"Wednesday, October 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"My laptop (Toshiba Satellite A505-S6025) supposedly has Roxio Creator 2010 on it, pre-installed, well IS SUPPOSED to have ... according to documentation on this model. I don't have it. I have Roxio Burn, that's it. There is no \"DVD Creation\" sort of software on this laptop minus Microsoft's Movie Maker\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/computers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1668,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2012\/08\/12\/the-bourne-identity-supremacy-ultimatum-blu-ray-2012-release-problem\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":5},"title":"The Bourne Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum Blu-ray 2012 Release problem","author":"Maisy","date":"Sunday, August 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"At Costco we picked up The Bourne Identity last week, popped it into our PS3 (which is our Blu-ray player) and watched for a bit then had freezing and skipping ... on two different PS3's it did the same thing, but not quite exactly the same ... weird. Anyhow, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Entertainment","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/entertainment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}