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Europe to offer movies on self-erasing DVDs

article published on 18 April, 2008

Italy, France, Germany and Scandinavia have begun offering DVD movies on a new format called DVD-D which is unique because it is self-erasing. By self erasing I mean that the content on the discs are erased exactly 8 hours after the movie is first played in any DVD player or PC drive. The timer is slightly longer for DVD-Ds that have software on them, 48 hours to be exact. The new format ... [ read the full article ]

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Tashammer
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_ 		21. April 2008 @ 17:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@ Varnull

totally agree. We need to get rid of "fashion" per se as all that it does is to require us to keep buying more and more.

abolish "leisure time" - this does noting for us to develop as a species. All we do is the same thing with small toys growing to bigger toys going back down to small toys again e.g. toy boat to surf ski to run about to Queen Mary (that one is hard to get mooring for at the local boat yard), then back down to boat-inna-bath.
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bangor09
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_ 		22. April 2008 @ 03:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by PantherM:
 The real question is why is the "special" disk 1/3rd the price of a regular DVD? They contain the same data....and it sure does not cost 10 bucks to produce a standard DVD.

Who are they fooling? Why not just cut the price of regular DVD's 66% and be done with it?

Amen to that!!
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Rosetta
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_ 		22. April 2008 @ 10:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I can see the potential in this idea, like if i am having a wine night with the girls and want a movie to watch it can be a cheap solution for buying something new and out of my usual comfort zone. But this solution simply can not compare to having that same movie conviniently downloaded on my hard drive.
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amirza
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_ 		23. April 2008 @ 01:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i am sure this has been trialed unsuccessfully before??
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vrg
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_ 		7. May 2008 @ 12:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Real cost of producing a DVD should be lessthan 50 pence. beacuase Moserbear selling new movie DVD's in india for Rs.34/= whih is lessthan 50 pence and blank DVD's are available for 10 pence.
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iluvendo
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_ 		7. May 2008 @ 20:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by psplvanub:
 a gold age for free movies. if we cracked psp we can sure as hell crack this

LOL
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