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Recording Industry Hoist By Their Own Petard
An anonymous reader writes "As reported by MSNBC, the recording industry has been unable to offer combination DVD / CD discs to consumers because of the IP ownership questions as well as licensing issues between CD and DVD content. All I can say is it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch!"
Maybe they put the CD information on one layer, readable by the CD laser, and then the DVD stuff on another.
Nuff said.
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Indeed, indeed. This is, as we say at the trekkie conventions, "being hosed by your own picard"
Sweet, sweet ineed.
As ye shall sow, so shall ye reap.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Maybe this is very uninformed but it seems to me most players, except some slot-loading ones, could accomodate a 1mm thicker disc without problems at all.
I'll add anecdotal evidence to this. Confusing as heck to pull a disc off a spindle, put it in, and have some other disc start playing, open the drive, confirm it's the disc you thought it was, spend a few moments wondering who's playing a joke on you and how, and then realize that it's two discs with static cling.
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Am I the only one that read this "Recording Industry Hoist By their Own Retard?"
There is a Universal Life Value Check it
and am, sadly, absolutely not the AC who submitted it :-)
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Issue two discs. One a standard CD, and the other a DVD. It costs them like what, 50 cents to burn a CD? Maybe $2 to burn a DVD? It will cost them more in R&D and legal fees to get a dual-format disk.
Using the Wisdom of Solomon, this problem is solved! Split it in two, and have two disks!
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