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Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD
auckland map writes "Microsoft has developed a cheap, disposable pre-recorded DVD disc that consumers can play only once." From the article: " Buying an ordinary DVD of a new film costs between £15 (E22, $26.40) and £20. Microsoft's new disc will enable the studios to release a "play-once, then throw away" copy for as little as £3, much the same as renting a video or DVD. But unlike a rented DVD, the new disc allows consumers to decide when they watch films and there is no need to return it. The new generation of DVD disc will spearhead a fresh assault by Microsoft on the home-entertainment market." Update: 10/06 03:38 GMT by J : Kinda important to read the followup story.
yeah, my '87 ford thunderbird definitely doesn't have 120k miles on it right now, and it's definitely still not running.. *rolls eyes*
There's no beauty in it at all!! Have you no consideration for your fellow (wo)man? Don't you know that your kids (and possibly you if you life that long) will be the ones stuck with the reprocussions from all this waste?
Maybe an alien attack, disease which wipes out at least a quarter of the world's population, or some other global event will change our views towards fellow members of our race. I sure hope so.
idiot spelled faggot wrong....next time you are a troll, do it right, /. does not need people like you
So you see what had happened was....