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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: elneckio on November 14, 2002, 02:54:27 PM

Title: DVD's that die !
Post by: elneckio on November 14, 2002, 02:54:27 PM
"Technology that renders optical media useless after a short lifespan will soon find its way into stores in the form of perishable DVDs. Retailers in the Southern United States will soon start giving a sample DVD to buyers of a CD (by Nappy Roots, a hip-hop group). This promotional DVD from Atlantic Records will work for only 8 hours. This promotion is aimed at finding if music fans would be interested in buying a package with both audio and video instead of just plain audio. A special dye sandwiched between the layers of the DVD will interact with air making it opaque and unreadable later. If this media catches on you may not have to return your DVD rentals in the future."

from http://www.slashdot.org
Title: Re:DVD's that die !
Post by: The Big Bad Ass on November 14, 2002, 08:11:48 PM
lol, thanks alot elneckio.... just when I think I can't get any lazier, I get excited over the possibility of not having to return a flick to the movie store :)

Thats cool though how they are doin that.
Title: Re:DVD's that die !
Post by: 40oz GRApHire on November 14, 2002, 10:37:51 PM
just copy it in the first 8 hours  ;)
Title: Re:DVD's that die !
Post by: elneckio on November 15, 2002, 12:59:15 AM
just copy it in the first 8 hours  ;)
Exactly what people will do, but it will take the inventors 6 months after release to work that one out !
Title: Re:DVD's that die !
Post by: E. J. Rizo on November 15, 2002, 02:49:45 AM
just copy it in the first 8 hours  ;)
Exactly what people will do, but it will take the inventors 6 months after release to work that one out !
and it will take people about 10 minutes to get passed there solution....like the marker on copy protected CD's...lol
Title: Re:DVD's that die !
Post by: elneckio on November 15, 2002, 03:16:24 AM
and it will take people about 10 minutes to get passed there solution....like the marker on copy protected CD's...lol

hehe, probably involve varnish on the discs next :)