Walt Disney Home Video to test market self-destructing DVDs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/technology/21FLEX.html?8hpib
An incredibly stupid idea with tons of extra plastic and printed paper waste for landfills! Brilliant! Why buy something you can keep and watch over and over when you can pay almost as much for something that is a worthless piece of trash 48 hours after opening it? I hope the loss of a few million dollars will help repair a little of Disney’s short-sightedness. Bleach! Grak! Blergh!
amir | 28-Jul-03 at 8:05 pm | Permalink
I thought that something akin to this was tried with the defunct DIVX format (after which the mpeg-4 knockoff codec was named) shortly after DVDs were launched. As I recall it failed completely because it was simply suych a ludicrously stupid idea.