{"id":672,"date":"2013-04-11T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/04\/11\/sorry-vhs-players-the-blu-rays-are-in\/"},"modified":"2013-04-11T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:10:00","slug":"sorry-vhs-players-the-blu-rays-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/04\/11\/sorry-vhs-players-the-blu-rays-are-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, VHS players. The Blu-rays are in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y5tvjBIx9y4\/UWcDob8xgVI\/AAAAAAAAAh0\/Oyoo53769Pg\/s1600\/dvdglow.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"208\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y5tvjBIx9y4\/UWcDob8xgVI\/AAAAAAAAAh0\/Oyoo53769Pg\/s320\/dvdglow.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For the longest time, Media Services has helped patrons view movies on-site with over a dozen <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-6HLrFAdKhws\/UWcJ2-cDb4I\/AAAAAAAAAh8\/PfV35b0URmk\/s1600\/dvdbrick.jpg\">DVD-VHS combo players<\/a>. Sadly, they&#8217;re falling apart and hard to maintain, and fewer patrons are using VHSes now than even a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve future-proofed ourselves by replacing the majority of our stations with new Blu-ray-DVD players. They&#8217;re smaller, faster, and have a number of built-in &#8220;smart&#8221; features (like Netflix playback) should we ever need those. Don&#8217;t worry: we&#8217;re keeping a couple VHS players around for those hard-to-find movies and special cases.<\/p>\n<p>Come see them for yourself if you haven&#8217;t had to watch a movie recently. They&#8217;re pretty nice!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the longest time, Media Services has helped patrons view movies on-site with over a dozen DVD-VHS combo players. Sadly, they&#8217;re falling apart and hard to maintain, and fewer patrons are using VHSes now than even a few years ago. We&#8217;ve future-proofed ourselves by replacing the majority of our stations with new Blu-ray-DVD players. They&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[66,185,208],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blu-ray","tag-inevitable-march-of-time","tag-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}