{"id":205,"date":"2010-01-24T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T18:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=205"},"modified":"2010-01-24T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T18:41:03","slug":"the-luddite-geek-joins-the-hd-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2010\/01\/the-luddite-geek-joins-the-hd-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Luddite Geek joins the HD crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways I feel like I&#8217;m a Luddite geek.\u00a0 I&#8217;m well aware of the cutting edge of technology trends, and can explain them to my non-geek family and friends.\u00a0 But I am very seldom living at that cutting edge any more.\u00a0 I have little interest in the latest and coolest toys, I want them to be stable and proven before I jump on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p>HD TV is there&#8230; we&#8217;ve replaced our reasonably good CRT TV with a middling size and price LCD.\u00a0 All I can say is &#8220;WOW!!&#8221;.\u00a0 Watching a DVD I know pretty well, it was amazing to see detail I hadn&#8217;t noticed before.\u00a0 The sharpness and clarity needs to be seen to be believed, and there is even sometimes a bit of a 3D effect, if the shot has been focused in such a way as to keep the background blurred.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how sporting events look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways I feel like I&#8217;m a Luddite geek.\u00a0 I&#8217;m well aware of the cutting edge of technology trends, and can explain them to my non-geek family and friends.\u00a0 But I am very seldom living at that cutting edge any more.\u00a0 I have little interest in the latest and coolest toys, I want them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}