{"id":430,"date":"2011-01-11T09:29:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/01\/11\/110111_bluray\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T18:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:23:59","slug":"110111_bluray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/01\/11\/110111_bluray\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-Ray: Consumer tech with pro headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 1em 2em;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/bluray.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Blu-ray disc\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/\">Khoi Vinh<\/a> is a well-respected designer (he reworked the website for the New York Times) and is in demand as a speaker at tech and design conferences around the world. In other words, he&#8217;s a bit of a geek. And thus I find his experiences with and observations about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/2011\/01\/10\/blu-ray-blues\">the current state of Blu-Ray<\/a> to be sadly affirming of my own. Here&#8217;s his money quote:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\" style=\"clear: both;\">What I wanted, and what I would be willing to guess most consumers want out of Blu-Ray, is simply better looking home video. That &nbsp;shouldn&#8217;t have been hard to do at all, but the business agenda of the entertainment&nbsp;and technology industries stepped in and subverted that simple equation&nbsp;until it became a complex mess. If you haven&#8217;t yet made the switch to&nbsp;Blu-Ray, I would urge you to consider carefully before you do.<\/div>\n<p>Khoi is expressing frustration at consumer-grade technology that has professional-grade complexity. I share his pain. Our Sony Blu-Ray disc player continues to gather dust because it refuses to cooperate with our Onkyo A\/V receiver. For a long while, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/06\/100628-brokenonkyo.html\">I blamed the receiver<\/a>, and even sent it in for diagnostics and repair. It was returned after a months-long interval while the service company tried without success to replicate the problem. We still can&#8217;t use the player without plugging it directly into the TV, bypassing the receiver&#8217;s video circuitry (although still being able to use the digital audio). As a result, we simply don&#8217;t watch Blu-Ray movies.<\/p>\n<p>As Vinh observes, the Blu-Ray picture is exquisite&#8230;when it works. But in my experience, this technology is still not ready for prime time on too many levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khoi Vinh is a well-respected designer (he reworked the website for the New York Times) and is in demand as a speaker at tech and design conferences around the world. In other words, he&#8217;s a bit of a geek. And thus I find his experiences with and observations about the current state of Blu-Ray to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/01\/11\/110111_bluray\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blu-Ray: Consumer tech with pro headaches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[18,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-television-radio","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}