Disney's self-distructing DVD's

[Moonlight_Armada]

Hey all,
Has anyone heard about this yet--apparently, Disney is gearing up to test-market DVD's that self-distruct through some sort of chemical reaction after 2 days...

[URL=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030516/tc_nm/media_disney_dvds_dc_3[/URL]

Oh yeah, this is REALLY going to take off :P

[avx]

They should put that on Barney tapes...that way the kids cant watch them over and over and over and over and over and over....

[Byte 2.0]

another bad idea like divx. I guess they did not learn from History and Circuit City, they will be forced to repeat the failure.

Wait until the EPA gets ahold of this. Wait until consumers claim the DVD's have damaged their DVD players.

LawyerRon get ready we have claims to fill out, and profit to make.

[Paul Victorey]

Wow, disposable rentals, our landfills will love this idea.

[morriswindgate]

The idiots that run the entertainment industry never will get it straight and that is quality product at a fair price with fair use rules. Years ago instead of sueing every thing they could for file sharing, they could have launched their own service opening the song vaults and charging 50 to 75 cents per song, but no, they had to charge 1.00 to 1.50 per song so that it was still cheaper to buy the CD than download. So now they have spent untold hundreds of millions of dollars on lawyers and have very little to show in return other than decreased profits. THe real fact is that the recording industry doesn't want to get rid of CD sales or open the vaults to downloading. Reason is that today's artists usually have only one to two songs worth listening to on an album and most new artists are basically invented not discovered so they would lose even more money.
Divx was a bust and the refunds that Circuit City paid out on the machines almost ran them into the ground. On the other hand I hope Disney tries it as it would be good to get rid on the people running it.

[milkman4_hi_r]

whats up woth the divx thing? i thought that it was on computers... they made players too? im stupid please help me...


oh yea and the disposable dvd idea is just a way to create more garbage and make more countries hate us for our wasteful nature. we'll be hearing alot about it im sure...if it happens. and most will probaly still copy the discs :eek: ;)

[Byte 2.0]

divx was circuit citys attempt at selling movies on divx designed that once you started watching you had unlimited views for 24 hours, then each time you watched it would dial up and charge your account everytime you watched it, it was rent and never return but if you watched it again it would cost you. it went under and then the divx codex was released on the internet about the same time.

[milkman4_hi_r]

oooooh ok i gotcha!

[mystvearn]

It is still in experimantal stage, I think.

[HAL9000]

Seems to me that that kinda technology would just encourage piracy... copy the thing before it self destructs.

[Strider]

A stupid idea that will hopefully FLOP big time. Doesn't Disney make enough money with their theme parks, movies, TV, and merchandise? I'll boycott everything Disney (including ABC) if this actually happens.

[avx]

Originally posted by HAL9000
Seems to me that that kinda technology would just encourage piracy... copy the thing before it self destructs.
LoL - Your right on with that one Dave. Instead of people buying it and just possibly coppying it when a friend wanted one or something...People are gonna be racing home to copy it as many times as they can...Its truly one of the stupidest ideas in history.

[Trent Steel]

Originally posted by HAL9000
Seems to me that that kinda technology would just encourage piracy... copy the thing before it self destructs.

I heard about this type of technology before, and that is exactly what I thought, copy it before it self destructs. No one should pay money for these disks, but they will be gradually introduced as freebies to get consumers used to the idea of the disks, then they will start charging compariably to rentals and you can get them at the local convenience store, online, at the grocery store and you don't have to return them. It will come about if consumers let their dollars go towards the products. Disney supposedly represents family values but they are one of the only companies that has put advertisments in the special no skip section of DVDs intended for the copyright notice. They also lobbied hard (and succeded) to get their Mickey Mouse copyrights from 50 years to 75 years.

If you don't like the idea of these disks they never use, accept and more importantly do not put any dollars towards it, that includes giveaways.

[sleepypost]

sounds like a possibly good idea actually (from a corporate standpoint). BUT i'd get a build up of worthless discs and lord knows i hate useless media!!!

[Alienware_Dude]

C'mon, it's a great idea! :rolleyes:

[padawan]

Now if it just turned into a blank CD-R for reuse afterwards, that would be cool... :D

[setfree]

it might not be such a bad idea IF the prices were cheaper than a rental. But considering this is disney were talking about that's a long shot.

[Spyda]

whinnie the pooh makes like 20 billion a year alone, never mind all the other characters