Great news for CD manufacturers and collectors of AOL promo CDs! The perishable DVD media is born. This had been vaporware for a while. Beyond the environmental issues, I wonder if this won’t do wonders for spread of DVD copying know-how.

Basically the DVD will most likely contain a short extract, not the whooping 4.7 GB from a full DVD and there wil be every incentive to rip the content to your hard drive asap since the disc will become opaque and unreadable in a few hours after being taken out of it’s airtight packaging.

Now, DVD with audio tracks can be interesting even if it is almost absent from the market place (I won’t even get into the DVD-Audio mess). So the media itself is promising and can be made into valuable products, as Fleecy showed me. So maybe this will be a good thing in the end. But can CD and DVDs be recycled?

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