{"id":3404,"date":"2005-06-29T14:17:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/06\/29\/office-depot-bootlegs\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:11:38","slug":"office-depot-bootlegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/06\/29\/office-depot-bootlegs\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Depot bootlegs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8000,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.officedepot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310041431\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.officedepot.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.officedepot.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 08:43:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:12:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 07:57:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 07:57:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8001,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cmt.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310041455\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cmt.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cmt.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 08:43:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:12:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 07:57:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 07:57:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8002,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.starwars.com\\\/episode-iii&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110913133502\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.starwars.com:80\\\/episode-iii&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 03:36:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 08:43:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:12:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 07:57:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 07:57:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I stopped by the downtown Seattle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/\" title=\"Office Depot\">Office Depot<\/a> on lunch to do some coveting, and had to wonder how customers were expected to compare the quality of the various LCD displays when they were all playing a highly-compressed (crappy) video &#8212; possibly a VCD &#8212; of music videos taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/\" title=\"Country Music Television\">CMT<\/a>&#8216;s broadcast stream (complete with a &#8220;Ripped by&#8230;&#8221; banner that popped up every few videos).<\/p>\n<p>I halfway considered saying something to the one employee on duty, but as he could barely manage to grunt a greeting at me as I walked by since he was so engrossed in watching a (highly-illegal) bad quality (overcompressed and the wrong aspect ratio) bootleg of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/episode-iii\/\" title=\"Star Wars: Episode III\">Star Wars Episode III<\/a> &#8212; yeah, the one still in theaters &#8212; I didn&#8217;t think that it would be worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRollins Band%2526albumTerm=Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin%2526songTerm=Four Sticks%26 partnerId%3D30\">Four Sticks<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1= itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRollins Band%26partnerId%3D30\">Rollins Band<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRollins Band%2526albumTerm=Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin%26partnerId%3D30\">Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin<\/a><\/em> (1995, 3:31).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by the downtown Seattle Office Depot on lunch to do some coveting, and had to wonder how customers were expected to compare the quality of the various LCD displays when they were all playing a highly-compressed video of music videos taken from CMT&#8217;s broadcast stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}