I read about them.

Disney is going to start putting them out.

As soon as they are exposed to oxygen, the process starts. There is a
coating on them that disintegrates and then its unplayable. Apparently, you
have 2 days to view them.

They are NOT recyclable and I think this is terrible.
In 2002, 891.4 million DVDs were rented. If just 10% of those had been
disposable, that would have added more than 89 million DVDs to our
landfills, in addition to wasting valuable energy resources to create
millions more DVDs than are currently manufactured.

We already have enough disposable discs entering our waste stream, thanks to
AOL's ubiquitous discs, and services already exist to allow easier return of
rental DVDs, like Netflix's U.S. Mail return system. Video-on-demand
services are another alternative option that would not generate the waste
that this ill-conceived plan would generate.

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From: "editorsmate" <editorsmate@...>
To: <dvddeveloper@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:42 AM
Subject: [DVD Developer] new disposable dvds


> Have you guys heard of the new disposable DVDs? Someone just told me
> about them tonight. I guess, from what I heard, you get so much
> allotted time to watch the movie and then the DVD isn't watchable
> anymore. And then you can recycle them. I'm one of those people who
> have late fees all over town, hehe, so this of course sounded neat to
> me. I was just wondering if anyone has heard of them and what's going
> on with them.
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