{"id":4806,"date":"2012-05-07T14:41:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2012-05-07T14:41:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:41:25","slug":"windows-8-dvd-playback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/07\/windows-8-dvd-playback\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 DVD Playback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/bott\/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-player-why-cant-microsoft\/4962\">Ed Bott<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/05\/07\/windows-dvd\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/bott\/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-player-why-cant-microsoft\/4962\"><p>Microsoft&rsquo;s decision to remove support for playing DVD movies in Windows 8 has caused some confusion. If the VLC media player can provide DVD support for free, why can&rsquo;t Microsoft? For starters, Microsoft isn&rsquo;t French.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Bott (via John Gruber): Microsoft&rsquo;s decision to remove support for playing DVD movies in Windows 8 has caused some confusion. If the VLC media player can provide DVD support for free, why can&rsquo;t Microsoft? For starters, Microsoft isn&rsquo;t French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}