{"id":588,"date":"2009-04-30T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/hdmi\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T19:38:00","slug":"hdmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/hdmi\/","title":{"rendered":"HDMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, my room-mate and I tried to watch 1408 on DVD &#8211; but the DVD picture wasn&#8217;t working. \u00a0The sound was okay though. \u00a0 So, after a bit of testing, I determined it was the HDMI cable that was the problem. \u00a0 Which ticked me off cause those things are expensive. \u00a0 In the short term, I swapped the cable with that for the cable box &#8211; and we were in business. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(I went and got a new HDMI cable the next day)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, with picture restored and surround sound cranked, we fired up the DVD and I settled in to enjoy a pretty good interpretation of a really good Stephen King story.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And less than 10 minutes in, my room-mate fell asleep. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now, 1408 is the story of a man vs. a haunted hotel room. \u00a0 And the room pretty much destroys itself trying to drive him crazy. \u00a0 Fires, floods, monsters, screaming &#8211; pretty much the whole package. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I tried to wake him a couple of times and finally just gave up and woke him when it was done. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not too surprising, really &#8211; he fell asleep in the theatre during James Bond. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>later&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-5669626296001625060?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, my room-mate and I tried to watch 1408 on DVD &#8211; but the DVD picture wasn&#8217;t working. \u00a0The sound was okay though. \u00a0 So, after a bit of testing, I determined it was the HDMI cable that was the problem. \u00a0 Which ticked me off cause those things are expensive. \u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}