Posted by jordanlund on 12/24/23 11:28

"That reminds me whatever happened to that program where you buy DVD
cheap but you got limited time before exposure to air makes the disc
unreadable? AFAIK the test market never went past being a test market
phase. And that old divx sank like Titanic. "

IIRC it was heavily backed by Disney, since kids are big on repeat
viewings.

Hmmm... the last mention I see was 2004:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/01/self_destructing_dvd/

"Despite the growing interest from big film studios, disposable DVDs
haven't been much of a success. According to some reports, demand for
EZ-D has fallen completely flat, and the retail chains carrying the
discs have decided to stop stocking the format."

- Jordan

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