Too lazy to google...how about a link to a trailer? 😀

Sweet. Unfortunately, I'm pretty out of the loop when it comes to keeping up with stuff now days. I can tell you that "normal" for a baby is a really wild range. 😀

"JohnDF" wrote: You're lucky, you don't have to send your kid out of the room yet when you watch a movie.

You're lucky that your kids leave when you tell them to.

i was wondring when u guys would say something about this.

"JohnDF" wrote: Brad never rents...he buys

Cool, now I know where to get it.

"BKGM Jeepers" wrote: [quote="JohnDF"]I already returned my copy...you're on your own.
Besides, Brad never rents...he buys

There goes my source! Now I need to try and dig one up somewhere else...

its at the redbox. $1 a day. i usually reserve the movie online in the morning @ work then pick it up on the way home. then i have until 9pm the next night to return it. good deal i think. 😀

Here's some info and an editorial...

From here: http://hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlase ... waydvd.htm

Note all the updates at the bottom. The technology has been around for a while but hasn't caught on.

"Your DVD will become unplayable in 48 hours..." If Disney and Flexplay are successful, this will be the message appearing on most rental DVDs and new DVD movies targeted for sale at convenience stores, mall kiosks, and maybe even your local coffeeshop, in the coming months.
Basically, the concept works like this: you, the consumer, buys or rents the DVD (to be known as the "EZ-D"). However, once the seal on the DVD package is broken, the clock starts ticking towards a self-destruct time limit (such as 36 or 48 hours). The DVD can be viewed as many times as you wish during that time period, then throw it away.

This is how EZ-D works. There is a chemical coating on the DVD that, when exposed to air, starts a slow decaying process. The DVD turns color over time and then becomes unplayable. Flexplay "assures" that this process will not affect playback quality or repeated play ability until the designated self-destruct time. The decaying process is final and cannot be hacked or reversed. The disc is useless at this point and cannot be reused.

Disney and Flexplay are touting EZ-D as giving consumers much more choice on how and where DVDs can be purchased, rented, or viewed. Many consumers just want to watch a movie without the hassle of returning it to the video rental store, mailing it back to an online rental service, or putting on the shelf to collect dust. In addition, promoters of the the self-destructing DVD claim that it will have no effect on the availability of standard DVDs for movie buffs and others who collect discs and enjoy the extra features that standard DVDs offer the consumer.

Since its inception, the DVD has turned into the dominant form of watching videos at home. Consumers and retailers have embraced the little disc in a manner unlike any other media distribution product in history. In fact, recordable DVD (despite a plethora of competing formats) is quickly encroaching on the VCR, especially with the use of PC-DVD burners. From family photos to vacation camcorder videos, preserving memories on DVD will replace inferior VHS recordings in a few years.

However, as advances in DVD technology make it easier to access and make video programming, the disposable DVD is about to add a consequence to DVD viewing that is undiserable and is creating critcism: "Where does it go after you use it?" The thought of mountains of "used" DVDs filling up garbage cans, dumpsters, and landfills isn't very appealing; we have too many disposable items already. Even if they can be recycled and the government gets the bright idea of placing a recycling tax on them (oops!), most consumers will just throw them away.

Designer waste cans just for DVDs are probably on the way!

Disney and Flexplay claim the new EZ-D is geared towards the rental and impulse market, but I believe there is more to this than meets the eye. In my opinion, there are several goals at work here. One is to decrease the public ownership of copyrighted video material. Disney, especially, is very protective about the use, possession, and unauthorized copying of its video products by consumers. Also, Disney and others, stand to increase their revenue greatly depending how they price EZ-Ds, especially if the consumers buy them over-and-over again and EZ-D pushes standard DVDs off the shelf. Lastly, the EZ-D may also impact the used DVD market, which the movie studios don't make any money on. Trading and selling used DVDs is very popular.

Will consumers embrace the disposable DVD? Only market reaction will tell. Circuit City tried this concept a few years back (remember DIVX?) and lost millions. However, unlike Circuit City's concept, the EZ-D does not require a special type of DVD player. I am not thrilled with the idea of another try at this concept, but can't wait to check it out for myself. Watch for a followup report...

From the “lame technology” department. A German company has developed disposable DVD discs that can be viewed for a period of 48 hours after the package has been opened before becoming unreadable by DVD players. These DVDs are reported to sell for only €3.99 ($6.44 /£3.20).

Only $6.44? You may as well pay a little more and buy the movie; unless this is a movie you aren’t sure about and in that case there is another (quite illegal) solution. If you watch the movie and decide that its worth keeping; act within the correct time frame and with the proper software, it would be possible to make a copy as it appears to employ no DRM protection of any kind. That’s real smart on the part of the company. It’s still illegal to make a copy but you’d think it would have taken steps to prevent that.

Then there’s the disposable part. You don’t return the disc to a store or mail it back to the rental company, just toss it in the trash or recycle it (oh who am I kidding?). That’s very wasteful.

The Register reports, DVD-D Germany Ltd’s ‘Einmal’ discs have a self-destruct layer that begin dissolving as soon as it is exposed to an oxygen atmosphere. As soon as it has, DVD players or PC DVD drives will display a “no disc” read error.

Disposable DVDs were attempted in the US, here’s a hint, head over to Best Buy, Circuit City or even Amazon.com and just see if you can find any? No? Yeah, worked out real well, didn’t it?

In five or six years, DVDs will be sitting in the bargain bins just like VHS tapes are today because Blu-Ray will have taken over and five or ten years later, we’ll be sitting around our holo-projection OLED SHDTV (Super HDTV) sets hooked up to a holographic disc player wondering what primitive things DVDs were in the first place. DVDs… what?