{"id":6584,"date":"2017-01-27T18:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T18:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2017-01-18T18:33:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:33:51","slug":"linked-the-curved-tv-gimmick-might-finally-be-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/27\/linked-the-curved-tv-gimmick-might-finally-be-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The Curved TV Gimmick Might Finally Be Dead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-curved-tv-gimmick-might-finally-be-dead-1790743745\">Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If you weren\u2019t watching Samsung\u2019s TV event and LG press conference you might have missed it. The curved TV, once considered the whizzbang tech that would save televisions, is dead. Not quite in the ground, but no longer the darling of its makers. The curved TV is being quietly shuffled away from the limelight to make way for newer, and better, fads in televisions.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All I can say is that I\u2019m glad I bought one before they were killed. I still watch 3D movies as well so I\u2019m in <em>that<\/em> camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Gizmodo: If you weren\u2019t watching Samsung\u2019s TV event and LG press conference you might have missed it.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","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_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Ic","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4305,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/linked-a-leather-clad-robotic-core\/","url_meta":{"origin":6584,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;A leather-clad robotic core&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Another great piece on SixColors: I\u2019m with Marco. 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