{"id":1785,"date":"2002-08-26T13:07:22","date_gmt":"2002-08-26T13:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2002-08-26T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2002-08-26T13:07:22","slug":"the_end_of_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"The end of the VCR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">NYTimes<\/a> has an article on the rise of DVDs.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/08\/26\/technology\/26DVD.html?ex=1030939200&#038;en=444d84d235ab849c&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Revolt in the Den: DVD Sends the VCR Packing to the Attic<\/a>. Digital videodiscs and their players, which five years ago were not much more than the toys of gadget-lust sufferers, have now taken full wing as a true pop-culture phenomenon. By Rick Lyman. [<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.userland.com\/newYorkTimes\">New York Times: Technology<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>The final nail in the coffin of the VCR will be when DVD recorders come down to a reasonable price.  We&#8217;ve already got the TiVo, but it still hasn&#8217;t gotten as much market penetration.  And, if I want to archive something on the TiVo I still need my VCR.  The question now  is just how fast that will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYTimes has an article on the rise of DVDs. Revolt in the Den: DVD Sends the VCR Packing to the Attic. Digital videodiscs and their players, which five years ago were not much more than the toys of gadget-lust sufferers, have now taken full wing as a true pop-culture phenomenon. By Rick Lyman. [New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}