[ale] Self destructing DVD's (OT)

[Adrin]

This 
was already tried on the market once before.  I think it was called DVDx, 
Not sure.  Circuit City and another retail bombed with it.  No one 
would buy the product.  It took a special player and you paid almost $10.00 
for the DVD and you could only watch the DVD a number of times or for a number 
of days.  Whichever came first.   Personally it may look good on 
paper in the marketing dept. but as a consumer if I had the option I would go 
ahead and pay the $19.00 for the DVD that doesn't have the limits.   
My prediction is this will fail also.
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: ale-admin at ale.org 
  [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Preston 
  BoyingtonSent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:06 AMTo: Ale 
  (E-mail)Subject: [ale] Self destructing DVD's 
  (OT)
  " ... The Self-Destructing DVD. Disney and Flexplay are 
  teaming up to produce DVDs that become unreadable two days after being opened. 
  ...  "
  The first I had heard about this was a few minutes ago while 
  reading Home Theater magazine's (August 2003) "prologue". 
  A quick Google for "self destructing dvd" will bring up over 
  4000 hits. 
  Thought I would pass it along. 
  Preston