[ale] Self destructing DVD's (OT)

[F. Grant Robertson]

This isn't all that new..  Studios have been sending out screeners that self
destructed for about a year now. The ones I've read about are done with a
chemical die which is activated by ("air" or light maybe, can't remeber)
that basicly dyes the disc to the point that it can't be read within hours
or days of exposure.

I'd have to say, I like approaches like this much better than I like
companies playing around with non-standard copy protection schemes that
render current players useless. Remember the Celine Dion / Macintosh
debacle? Her CD's copy protection caused Mac OS to be unable to eject or
read the cd.. forcing you to dig out the paper clip.

FWIW, "DIVIX", which is what I think the Circuit City stuff was called,
worked on an entirely different scheme.. The data itself was still
potentially readable.

-G

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Adrin
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:20 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] Self destructing DVD's (OT)


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
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