{"id":1454,"date":"2005-11-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/11\/14\/the-television-revolution-is-at-the-gates\/"},"modified":"2005-11-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T18:00:00","slug":"the-television-revolution-is-at-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/11\/14\/the-television-revolution-is-at-the-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Television Revolution is at the Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What have I been saying, huh?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printthis.clickability.com\/pt\/cpt?action=cpt&amp;title=The+Television+Revolution+is+at+the+Gates&amp;expire=&amp;urlID=16243960&amp;fb=Y&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewyorkmetro.com%2Fnymetro%2Farts%2Ftv%2F15038%2Fin\">The Television Revolution is at the Gates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I admit that I drooled a little when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\/ipod.html\">new video iPod<\/a> hit the streets.  But then I peeped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\/specs.html\">the specs<\/a>, and wasn&#8217;t so impressed.  Half VGA resolution?  NTSC video?  No widescreen?  Eh.  I&#8217;m not saying I wouldn&#8217;t enjoy having one, but I&#8217;d much rather have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archos.com\/products\/av_700\/tech_specs.html\">Archos AV700<\/a> (and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000510039613\/\">compatible<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.dbs.echostar\/browse_thread\/thread\/4deaccbb8b5c3ecb\/f4e62c1e761ff931?tvc=2#f4e62c1e761ff931\">Dish 962 DVR<\/a>, but that&#8217;s another rant)&#8211; or the <em>real<\/em> killer app, which I&#8217;m sure will, sadly, never happen: iTunes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/news\/2005\/11\/11\/pspipod\/index.php\">PSP<\/a>.  Oh, if only Sony would fucking <strong>get it<\/strong> when it comes to digital media and hardware interoperability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What have I been saying, huh? The Television Revolution is at the Gates. Now, I admit that I drooled a little when the new video iPod hit the streets. But then I peeped the specs, and wasn&#8217;t so impressed. Half&#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":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","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=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}