Once Again, With Feeling: No One Wants Self-Destructing DVDs
from the trying-again... dept
Simply amazing. Over the years, there have been way too many attempts at offering "disposable, self-destructing, DVDs." It started in the late 90s with Circuit City's Divx, which failed (note, this is a different Divx than the video compression format). A few years later, some other company started pitching disposable DVDs, which never went anywhere. Then, suddenly, Disney seemed to think they had come up with something new and started offering disposable DVDs. Guess what? They failed too. Miserably. Even though Disney convinced some gullible reporter that things were going great, they barely sold any of the damn things and got out of the business entirely. In fact, it got so bad that the company that made the self-destructing DVDs for Disney sold itself off to some other company that now seems to think there's a big market out there for the product. Yeah, good luck with that. If anything, the market has gotten even smaller with services like Netflix (no late fees -- one of the major selling points of the disposable DVD gang) and Blockbuster's plan to sort of, but not really kill late fees.
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It could work at the right price
Thinking about these as slighty cheaper DVD sales is all wrong, it is a method of movie rental and the first company that realises this and pitches the price accordingly is going to clean up.
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Re: It could work at the right price
Its so stupid I can just imagine the people who keep pushing this must be seriously high.
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Re: It could work at the right price
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Garbage
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Others should take the message to heart
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Good deal?
2) Make copy of DVD movie with freely available software
3) Put copy of DVD movie into case and drop the disposable DVD into the trash or recycling container.
For the price of $7 plus a blank DVD ($0.25+ depending on qty) you have a movie you can watch time and time again.
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Re: Good deal?
Disposable dvd's are a great way (until VOD and other digital distribution gain ground) to offer movie rentals.
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