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But DIVX was just about to take off!

DIVX may be dead, but its earth-destroying relative is being sold at stationery stores, airport newsstands and truck stops across the US.

Here is a link. Not a single film there that I'd consider 'good'

You can request a free postage-paid mailing label to return the used products (watched disks) to Flexplay. All they ask for is the UPC code on the back of the product. Boy, this looks like an idea with a hell of a lot of screw-U potential. Have fun, be young and drink Pepsi (and be sure to recycle that empty aluminum can, bro.)

http://www.flexplay.com/recycling/prepaid_label/

http://flexplay.com/recycling/

You can recycle them. You can return them to the store you bought them at for recycling. You can even get a free mailing label and ship them to flexplay for recycling.

You can also shoot yourself in the face if you're dumb enough to buy this crap.

You're right. Everyone just jumped on the opportunity to attack Microsoft. It's not like they would have ridiculed some random company that came up with the idea of disposable DVDs.

Oh, wait...

Although I'm sure that the Microsoft bit was a hoax, as far back as 2000 a company called Spectradisc, which has since been acquired by Flexplay, was actively working on a clear, chemical layer that would discolor when struck by the laser from the DVD player thus making the disc a single-play. They claim that their target market was for groups like the Academy Awards or those who want to offer promo material while preventing distribution or something like "pizza and a DVD", allowing the DVD to be viewed once.

Since then, Flexplay has used similar technology to discolor DVDs 48 hours after the case is open. In this case, the disc is sealed in an airtight container. When it comes in contact with oxygen, is begins the discoloration process to where it's unreadable in about 48 hours. Disney released several movies under the "EZ-D" label using this technology. It's the Circuit City DIVX scam in a new package.

I don't know if Flexplay is still pursuing the single-play DVD concept, but since they bought SpectraDisc they obviously have all of the research that SpectraDisc might have already done.

On the tutorial video they say "Your Flexplay DVD plays in any standard DVD drive..." The 3D clipart shown is a console DVD player, a Gateway 2000 Pentium-150-ish PC (you can tell by the case), and an original Sony Playstation.

Flexplay disks start out red, and then turn to black as the playing surface degrades. Takes about 48-72 hours to become unplayable.

And watching, then resealing in a vacuum bag does not work. We tested this at work. The vaccuum bagged disks still degraded, although slower than one fully exposed to air.

From the website: How Does it work?

For now, it seems it is just a mailing address...
http://www.flexplay.com/recycle.html

I don'w know what will happen once it gets there, but at least they seem to support it.

Actually, they seem to support recycling: http://www.flexplay.com/recycle.html

also in their FAQ: http://www.flexplay.com/faq.html#recycle

Actually, they seem to support recycling: http://www.flexplay.com/recycle.html

also in their FAQ: http://www.flexplay.com/faq.html#recycle

DISCLAIMER:
No Return Rental is a registered trademark of Flexplay Technologies, Inc.

Thank you for your attention.

By the way, I was trying to be funny in my previous post, but now, after I've read Flexplay FAQ, I see that my comment was not funny at all, they're seriously advertising their technology pretty much in the same way... Now, that's funny!

The positive aspect of their success would be fact, that some people would have more garbage to collect, I guess.

DISCLAIMER:
No Return Rental is a registered trademark of Flexplay Technologies, Inc.

Thank you for your attention.

By the way, I was trying to be funny in my previous post, but now, after I've read Flexplay FAQ, I see that my comment was not funny at all, they're seriously advertising their technology pretty much in the same way... Now, that's funny!

The positive aspect of their success would be fact, that some people would have more garbage to collect, I guess.