Company to release DVDs that expire in 48 hrs

Post #109,557

7/14/03 9:55:10 AM

A New York-based company has begun touting disposable DVDs that could radically change the way consumers acquire movies for domestic viewing.

If Flexplay has its way, rental and retail DVDs will be offered on a new type of disc the company plans to launch next month. The disc, dubbed EZ-D, is built of special plastics that become opaque when exposed to the air. Sold in air-tight packages, consumers have 48 hours to watch the movie before the DVD becomes a coaster.

[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/31718.html|link]

Guess no one's thought about how adding thousands of tons of non-recycleable material to our nation's ever growing mountains of trash isn't a good thing.

Post #109,563

by deSitter

7/14/03 10:12:32 AM

Rental woes

People who rent DVDs often trash them. It must be a nightmare for rental stores.

-drl

Post #109,565

by Ashton

7/14/03 10:16:33 AM

I predict..

Nitrogen filled feed-thru baggies --> dvd player running in similar. (Or if it doesn't like N, Argon for a few pennies more)

Nobody fucks with Paul Lazzaro.

Post #109,566

by gdaustin

7/14/03 10:19:47 AM

But, what about all those LATE FEES?

Yeah, I hate 'em too. But I'll bet late fees is what keeps Blockbuster afloat.

Post #109,625

by altmann

7/14/03 5:08:14 PM

Hmmm. Like hot needles thru plastic

Not that I'd advocate such a thing.

--
Chris Altmann

Post #109,640

by gdaustin

7/14/03 7:42:02 PM

How hard is this?

Instead of some gas to obfuscate the DVD, simply burn the DVD with an expiration date/time.

Then make players with built in clocks (that are automatically set, like the VCR we bought last year), then when the DVD decides it's time to stop playing the CD, well it's time, then.

Glen

Post #109,674

by kmself

7/14/03 11:41:49 PM

Think about it, Glen.

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Who do, and don't, you trust?

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Your suggested solution wouldn't work. It might keep an honest man honest, nothing more.

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Not that the dissolving disk solution is one I condone either. Note that it can be bypassed with the simple expedient, however, of copying the disk before it disintegrates.

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Doh!

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Post #109,684

by cforde

7/15/03 1:08:08 AM

so, what you're saying is

that their proposed self-destructing DVDs won't solve their alleged problem either. So, what real benefits do the makers see with this? It will discourage people unwilling to pay the up-front cost of an extra blank DVD-R?

Have fun,
Carl Forde

Post #109,701

by static

7/15/03 6:59:43 AM

I believe that used to be called DivX.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

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