{"id":228,"date":"2007-05-18T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=228"},"modified":"2007-05-18T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:57:49","slug":"to-br-or-not-to-br","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"To BR or not to BR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FINALLY, Brannagh&#8217;s version of Hamlet is coming out on DVD. Christ, it&#8217;s only been like <i>ten years<\/i>.  The studio that made absolutely sure we had <i>Basic Instinct 2<\/i> on DVD at the earliest possible moment sat on this masterpiece for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, since it&#8217;s in 70mm, it&#8217;s a legitimate question of whether I should wait until a) the high-def DVD wars are over and one format triumphs; b) the price of the platers comes down.  I&#8217;ve been thinking more and more about declaring a moratorium on DVD buying until the high-def fight is finished (of course, I&#8217;d have to have a high-def TV first).  I hate buying movies six times.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the quality of movies being pooped out by Hollywood these days has cut by DVD purchases on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINALLY, Brannagh&#8217;s version of Hamlet is coming out on DVD. Christ, it&#8217;s only been like ten years. The studio that made absolutely sure we had Basic Instinct 2 on DVD at the earliest possible moment sat on this masterpiece for a decade. Of course, since it&#8217;s in 70mm, it&#8217;s a legitimate question of whether I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To BR or not to BR?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-3G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}