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Tindo@heart - May 17, 2003
  Tindo@heart May 17, 2003
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/b...usine...

This is just stupid! What a crime against the enviroment. All of the consumers of this product should send Disney a disposal fee! This pisses me off. Does anyone here think that this is a good idea besides Disney?

You can find more stories on this by searching for "DVD" on http://news.google.com...

 mtxblau May 17, 2003
This is kind of puzzling. Since renting movies isn't a new or innovative way of watching movies, wouldn't people that don't want to buy but watch movies already have a membership at rental places? I mean, I rarely watch movies but I have a blockbuster membership...

Obviously this doesn't combat piracy, unless the pirates are just incredibly lazy...

I guess it's to get those people who don't like renting movies to go ahead and 'buy' these, but how profitable would that be? The price point would have to be very aggressive to compete with movie rental places...

Unless there's a huge market for this stuff (which there isn't - remember divx?) this is just going to be a major catastrophe and bad pr for Disney.

 Tindo@heart May 17, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Obviously this doesn't combat piracy, unless the pirates are just incredibly lazy...


This was exactly what I was thinking. If it does anything it helps piracy by reducing the price of the movie to a rental fee.

The technology has potential, but this implementation is just stupid. .... well, no. the technology seems stupid too. At least until I see a better example.

 M3d10n May 17, 2003
Well, this *IS* renting, but without subscribing and having to return the movie to the video store. Also, the 48 hour time limit will only start running when you open the DVD case, allowing you to decide when to watch it.

The only big bad point with this setup is that it'll produce a good load of pollution. Everytime you "rent" a movie, a DVD goes to waste.

And I believe that CD/DVD discs use a good load of envronment-unfriendly chemicals...

 Jurai May 17, 2003
this news is so old

 Gallstaff May 17, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Jurai@May 17, 2003 @ 05:44 PM



 this news is so old


Well some people might not have heard it yet.

And just thought I might throw this in there: You're an ass

 Jurai May 17, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Gallstaff+May 17, 2003 @ 11:49 AM-->
QUOTE(Gallstaff @ May 17, 2003 @ 11:49 AM)