{"id":1201,"date":"2008-05-21T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/05\/21\/netflix-living-up-to-their-name\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T04:28:00","slug":"netflix-living-up-to-their-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/05\/21\/netflix-living-up-to-their-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Living Up to Their Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/05\/21\/roku-netflix-player-hands-on-first-impressions\/\">Netflix Player<\/a> set-top box launched.  The Roku hardware costs $100, and the minimum subscription plan that lets you stream content is $9 a month.  This would have been awesome, except for three serious deficiencies:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Limited selection &#8211; currently, only older movies and TV shows are available for streaming&#8211;less than 10% of Netflix&#8217;s total catalog<\/li>\n<li>No HD output &#8211; highest resolution is 480p.<\/li>\n<li>As D says: <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">&#8220;Streaming sucks.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong.  I think it&#8217;s definitely a step in the right direction, and I&#8217;m glad to see Apple TV getting some competition, even if it&#8217;s an orange.  At least it&#8217;s not a lemon.  What&#8217;s that about bad puns?  I can&#8217;t hear you, I&#8217;ve got a banana in my ear!<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Netflix Player set-top box launched. The Roku hardware costs $100, and the minimum subscription plan that lets you stream content is $9 a month. This would have been awesome, except for three serious deficiencies: Limited selection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,32,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-sci-tech","category-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}