{"id":132,"date":"2010-03-04T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-03-04T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:33:53","slug":"tron-in-hd-pretty-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Tron in HD?  Pretty Awesome."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I happened to be flipping through the channels and saw that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tron<\/span> was on HDNET.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tron<\/span> was a favorite when I was a kid, and I hadn\u2019t seen it in a few years, so I flipped over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After watching it for a little while, I\u2019ve gotta tell you I was wowed by it.\u00a0 It honestly took me longer than I\u2019d like to admit to myself to realize I was watching <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tron<\/span> in High Definition, and it looked awesome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had my 50 inch 1080p DLP HD TV since the World Cup in 2006 (so that I could watch all the soccer games in High Definition), and while I have become an HD snob for TV shows and Sports, I haven\u2019t yet put in the money to switch my movie watching to Blu-Ray and full HD.\u00a0 Part of that had to do with the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD wars, and part of that is because I had an addiction to buying DVD\u2019s from around 2003 \u2013 2008 that took me a while to get over.\u00a0 (I\u2019m doing good in the fact that I\u2019ve only purchased one DVD for myself in the past 2 \u00bd years \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Forgetting Sarah Marshall<\/span>, and it was a used copy for cheap.)<\/p>\n<p>This viewing of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tron<\/span> reminded me how awesome HD can be.\u00a0 Now that I think about it, the only other HD movies I\u2019ve watch are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly<\/span>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Fifth Element<\/span>, and I remember thinking those looked great too.\u00a0 But <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tron<\/span> is a little different because these computer graphics should be incredibly dated by now with the dawn of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Avatar<\/span> in 3D (Which on a sidenote, I\u2019m over <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Avatar<\/span> these days because it just looks like stuff we\u2019ve seen in Final Fantasy games for years\u2014that, and the overly clich\u00e9d story).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead of looking dated, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tron<\/span> in HD looked really polished and cool.\u00a0 Sure it was hokey at parts, and the technology is simple polygons and such, but you tell me when you can watch <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tron<\/span> in HD and not want to create a custom <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tron<\/span> costume next Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I happened to be flipping through the channels and saw that Tron was on HDNET.\u00a0 Tron was a favorite when I was a kid, and I hadn\u2019t seen it in a few years, so I flipped over.\u00a0 After[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=132\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}