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Found this article on a dvd site.

I suppose fans of the superspy James Bond are no strangers to explosive gadgets, but a self-destructing DVD!?

MGM sent out over over 5,000 promo discs this week as a preview for the upcoming Bond flick Die Another Day, but there`s a catch. If you want to check out the 25-odd minutes of cool material included on the DVD, you may want to stand back after you put it in your player. As the tag on the mailer warns, "Once removed from its packaging, the DVD will self-destruct in 36 hours!"

Flexplay Technologies` special self-immolating DVD technology employs special coatings when creating discs that, after being exposed to air, become unusable within a preselected time period. As a DVD player`s laser is extremely sensitive to any changes in a disc`s surface and coating, even the slightest change can affect a disc`s playability. Depending on which coatings are used, the discs can remain operational anywhere from 8 to 60 hours.

Flexplay has been pushing their technology for over a year now, but has so far achieved only moderate success with noncommercial industry and promo titles, mostly music videos.

But industry sources say the upstart`s real goal is to entice the major Hollywood studios to use the technology to create "single-view titles," providing a workable way.

Potentially even more attractive to studio interests is the elimination of the video store altogether, as these single-view discs would severly reduce the need for return trips at all. With "rental" titles now readily available at any retail outlet across the country, the majority of the profits on these "rental" discs could then go directly to the studios.

So discuss.

floyd

If it was a George Clooney film I would be more than happy if it self-destucted befor I could watch it.

If this is of great concern to you let one of the larger enviromental groups about it as that would be a s*** loads of non biodegadable shinny things cloging up our land fills.

This is a bad idea.

All the best,

The 42%er.

It`s going to be redundant once DVD writers become commonplace, anyway. What`s to stop someone from copying the DVD onto his hard drive within the allotted time period, and writing it to DVD-R?

Mike

And who would be stupid enough to buy it in the first place! " How much is that DVD that I can only play a couple of times..? Me thinks not.

I`ve got about 40 dvds I haven`t even watched once!

it`s gotta be one of the strangest promotions since the Guest House Paridiso stickers that you had to Pee on

I`ve got about 40 dvds I haven`t even watched once!

THAT`S BECAUSE YOU OWN A SCAN !!

The Bear is back.

"And who would be stupid enough to buy it in the first place! " How much is that DVD that I can only play a couple of times..? Me thinks not."

If it is the same as rental?

All the best,

The 42%er

Ps: where have yopu been Bear? I thought Nelly had done for you once and for all.

"And who would be stupid enough to buy it in the first place! " How much is that DVD that I can only play a couple of times..? Me thinks not."

Rental £2......buy £10 to 20 .

Me been to Hell thanks to the ex wife!

Did you bump in to Peter Taylor the ever evil and his snarling lap dog Wisey while you were there?

All the best,

The 42%er.