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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. Re:Irony alert? by e8johan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I choose to register to /. At /. one can still read and even comment the articles without being registered. NYT forces me into registering if I want to read their articles. It is nice to them to supply articles for free, but I do not think that /. should refer to their articles, thus "forcing" users into registering to be able to follow the debate (intelligently).

  2. not exactly 2.5 years ago, re-read slashdot ! by mirko · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Michael wrote: "We noted this 2.5 years ago."

    It was actually less than a year ago (Feb 8th 2002)...

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  3. Slashdot quality degrading by stevenp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > We noted this 2.5 years ago.

    The old article uses the term "degrading". I noticed that not only the DVD-s are becoming degradable, the Slashdot comments are also degrading. The average length of the artikels posted 2.5 years ago is about 10 lines and most of them are quite interesting. When I compare it to the current posts, I see the term "degrading" in action.