{"id":514,"date":"2006-04-13T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2006-04-13T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T20:10:09","slug":"feature-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/13\/feature-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a long flight earlier this week and I had a laptop from work that I thought would entertain me for a while. Not the case. The battery life was abysmal, flickering out after 1.25 hours on a full charge. So I started looking on Amazon just to see prices for portable DVD players. There&#8217;s clearly some competition in that space, but a couple of features that some models sport to differentiate themselves seem entirely irrational:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The Remote<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/dvdremote.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" alt=\"DVD remote\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t even <em>see<\/em> a 7-inch screen at more than arm&#8217;s length.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Swivel<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/dvdswivel.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" alt=\"DVD swivel\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not even going to comment on this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on a long flight earlier this week and I had a laptop from work that I thought would entertain me for a while. Not the case. The battery life was abysmal, flickering out after 1.25 hours on a full charge. So I started looking on Amazon just to see prices for portable DVD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}