{"id":1469,"date":"2016-02-01T18:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2016-02-01T19:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:15:37","slug":"downtown-imax-debuts-1-2-million-laserdisc-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2016\/02\/01\/downtown-imax-debuts-1-2-million-laserdisc-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown IMAX debuts $1.2 million LaserDisc player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of setbacks and being unable to find the proper composite cables and adapters, the Tennessee Aquarium finally unveiled its $1.2 million LaserDisc player to a group of confused onlookers. The change comes after a much needed upgrade to existing IMAX facilities and a recent yard sale LaserDisc lot score from a local yard sale.<\/p>\n<p>Officials hope the cutting edge technology, which was originally from the 1980s and early 90s, will be a hit and draw a croud to the downtown IMAX location.<\/p>\n<p>Some future titles for the new LaserDisc projection include: Vanilla Ice presents Penguins, Safarin&#8217; with Kato Kaelin, and\u00a0Hubble: Pixelated<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We plan to keep the old IMAX technology around to play short videos to\u00a0audiences while we switch or flip discs every 30 minutes or so,&#8221; explained IMAX spokesmen Larry Sanderman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could have sold them one from my parents attic\u00a0for 5 bucks,&#8221; said onlooker Jerry Heed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of setbacks and being unable to find the proper composite cables and adapters, the Tennessee Aquarium finally unveiled its $1.2 million LaserDisc player to a group of confused onlookers. The change comes after a much needed upgrade to existing IMAX facilities and a recent yard sale LaserDisc lot score from a local yard sale. Officials hope the cutting edge technology, which was originally from the 1980s and early 90s, will be a hit and draw a croud to the downtown IMAX location. Some future titles for the new LaserDisc projection include: Vanilla Ice presents Penguins, Safarin&#8217; with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}