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In Stores Soon: Perishable DVDs

Posted by michael on from the CONSUME dept.

Makarand writes "Technology that renders optical media useless after a short lifespan will soon find its way into stores in the form of perishable DVDs. Retailers in the Southern United States will soon start giving a sample DVD to buyers of a CD (by Nappy Roots, a hip-hop group). This promotional DVD from Atlantic Records will work for only 8 hours. This promotion is aimed at finding if music fans would be interested in buying a package with both audio and video instead of just plain audio. A special dye sandwiched between the layers of the DVD will interact with air making it opaque and unreadable later. If this media catches on you may not have to return your DVD rentals in the future." We noted this 2.5 years ago.

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  1. In the future... by Dim_Slashdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    we will buy expensive hard drives that are designed to fail after a short time...

    Oh wait... we already do.

    1. Re:In the future... by FyRE666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      we will buy expensive hard drives that are designed to fail after a short time...
      Don't Fujitsu already sell these?

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  2. Decomposing dollar bills by cdf12345 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad I couldn't put the same coating on my dollar bills that would cause them to decompose as soon as the MPAA or RIAA touches them.

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  3. Re:Nothing new here by demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    After a few years on the dash of a car, it all becomes "Best of Queen" anyway...

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  4. Fortunately... by Rayonic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fortunately I live in a Neon/Argon atmosphere, so this shouldn't be much of a problem for me.

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  5. "We noted this 2.5 years ago." by tmark · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess things are coming full-circle when Slashdot editors are pointing out the retread stories for us !

  6. Re:8 hours? by RedWolves2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interesting...I never heard of ogg. I had to look it up. I'll have to give it a try and see how it compares. Thanks. ;-)

  7. Re:I for one would like to see by Carmody · · Score: 5, Funny

    right now my g/f has a $300 fine for having 2 videos that are like 6 mos overdue which is completely insane..

    It is. She should have returned the videos. What a whiner.

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  8. Tit for tat by edp · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think self-destructing DVDs are a great idea as long as I can pay for them with dollars printed with disappearing ink.