{"id":221,"date":"2008-05-04T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T21:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-05-19T06:34:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:34:16","slug":"a-nice-overview-of-the-hd-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/221","title":{"rendered":"A nice overview of the HD &#8220;battle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/geeks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Geeks.com<\/a>, they&#8217;ve written up a pretty good overview of the format wars both past and present. 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