{"id":99,"date":"2009-10-14T21:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T01:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/14\/cmon-fuji\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:01:01","slug":"cmon-fuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/14\/cmon-fuji\/","title":{"rendered":"C&#8217;mon Fuji!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been going through spindle after spindle of DVD-Rs testing things out for the <em>Refrain<\/em> DVD and I&#8217;ve got to tell you &#8211; I&#8217;ve got a pretty sizable coaster collection at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Have you bought a blank DVD-R these days? What&#8217;s going on with this industry? I&#8217;m calling you out Fuji! I don&#8217;t like to point fingers but c&#8217;mon! And don&#8217;t look so smug Memorex. You either Virbatum&#8230; I may have switched over brands but I&#8217;m not unpacking my bags.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the love? Where has the craftsmanship gone? Is hardcopy media so far gone now that these manufacturers just don&#8217;t care anymore? I remember when DVD-Rs where made by men. Handcrafted by artisans of a bygone era&#8230; I remember when you had to go out and mine the bauxite yourself, haul it to the aluminum refinery, polish the disks by hand&#8230; Those were the days. You knew what you were getting. A 1x write speed and desktop burner the size of a car battery.<\/p>\n<p>For shame&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long day. But don&#8217;t worry! I&#8217;ll make sure the <em>Refrain <\/em>DVDs are encoded by hand. I&#8217;ll do it myself with a magnifying glass and a needle.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the party VOD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How hard is it to make a 4&#8243; disk w\/ a million tiny holes in it that only lasers can read? Jeez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}