[ale] Self destructing DVD's (OT)

[Brian Stanaland]

It was called divx (no relation to the codec).

Brian

Adrin wrote:

> 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.
>  
> Adrin
>  
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]*On Behalf Of
>     *Preston Boyington
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:06 AM
>     *To:* 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
>

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