{"id":52,"date":"2004-05-24T20:34:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T01:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=52"},"modified":"2004-05-24T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T01:34:24","slug":"new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2004\/05\/24\/new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve finally taken the plunge.<\/p>\n<p>  Over the weekend I scored a long desired DVD burner, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memorex.com\/products\/product_display.php?cid=1&#038;pid=688&#038;oid=816\">True 8x by Memorex<\/a>.  I&#8217;d figured on waiting until prices were somewhere in the neigborhood of $80 and at least a 8x speed burner.  Well, I got the speed, but paid a premium for the drive.  (Or at least in my view)  For some reason, I bought the media before the drive; eeriely similar to buying my first CD (Tim McGraw&#8217;s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&#038;uid=UIDMISS70405242117350226&#038;sql=Apytvad5kt8w3\">Not a Moment Too Soon<\/a>).  <\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;m not sure if the system can bear the load required to successfully burn an actual working DVD.  I&#8217;m worried about the prices of mistakes as well, with blanks running at $1+, it&#8217;s an awfully expensive coaster!  Wish they&#8217;d kill off a few formats too, all the new DVD lingo makes one head spin.  Do you get the plus or minus burner (go for all-in-one), which media (-r,+r,-rw,+rw), what size (5gb,9gb, or bigger) and which laser (trusty ol&#8217; red or the new blu-ray)????  <\/p>\n<p>  Just give me my Betamax and leave me alone!<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">[Listening to: When It Hurts So Bad &#8211; Lauryn Hill &#8211; The Miseducation of Lauryn Hil (5:41)]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve finally taken the plunge. Over the weekend I scored a long desired DVD burner, the True 8x by Memorex. I&#8217;d figured on waiting until prices were somewhere in the neigborhood of $80 and at least a 8x speed burner. Well, I got the speed, but paid a premium for the drive. (Or at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}