{"id":26547,"date":"2009-05-30T18:17:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/30\/dvds-suck-all-the-time-in-all\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T18:17:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T18:17:45","slug":"dvds-suck-all-the-time-in-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/dvds-suck-all-the-time-in-all\/","title":{"rendered":"DVDs suck.  All the time.  In all ways."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, you are all a bunch of pod people, you consumers.  You take whatever crap is dished out, and pay extra for it.  When the DVD was produced to replace the tape (VHS) there was a significant down grade in performance in every single way but one.  These downgrades were entirely unnecessary.  The downgrades were implemented for two closely related purposes:  Marketing and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I&#8217;m talking about.  You can&#8217;t pop a DVD into a player and fast forward to a spot and watch the movie.  You can&#8217;t even watch the movie, in many cases, until you&#8217;ve watched ads.  You can&#8217;t que a DVD for later watching so that you can avoid the ads.<\/p>\n<p>As an educator, this has meant that I&#8217;ve been unable to use DVDs in the classroom AT ALL!!!  Well, if I were to pirate sections of a DVD and put them on my own DVD without ads and complex titles and menus, then maybe but of course, that would be illegal!!!<\/p>\n<p>What brings up this rant?  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/\/article\/20090522\/D98BF91G0.html\">I just bumped into a story about how the Astronauts on Atlantis were unable to watch some movies <\/a>they had brought with them because they couldn&#8217;t get the DVD&#8217;s to work.  They did not have the right codex or something.  What is a codes you ask?  A piece of software that someone is paying for that is designed to disable DVD functionality and make it hard to use the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, you are all a bunch of pod people, you consumers. You take whatever crap is dished out, and pay extra for it. When the DVD was produced to replace the tape (VHS) there was a significant down grade in performance in every single way but one. These downgrades were entirely unnecessary. The downgrades &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/dvds-suck-all-the-time-in-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DVDs suck.  All the time.  In all ways.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[130,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Ub","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}