DVDs to buy but not keep

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JD Lasica on 2003/07/21:

  „NY Times: DVD's Meant for Buying but Not for Keeping. To help consumers avoid [rental late]fees, while trying to develop new revenue, the Walt Disney Company's home video division plans to test market a new type of DVD that will...“

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Some slightly related:

Self-Destructing DVDs Not a New Idea

  „In reality self destructing DVDs are a waste of time for the movie industry, they will lose the battle in the end as the music biz has already. It does not matter how much protection is used to stop copying they will never stop copies being made. We have all paid through the nose for years to prop up the movie / music biz and I reckon its payback time.“

Found at a page of Scott Ott, posted on 2003/05/19

http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/ 000921.html - Cached

again into the future

  „Tuesday April 01, 2003 : again into the future Last May, Disney released the classic live-action feature films Pollyanna, Swiss Family Robinson, Old Yeller, and The Parent Trap as special 2-DVD sets in what was called the "Vault Disney" series. (I wrote about it in May and found some reviews of the sets in July.) It looks like the...“

Found at a page of Bill, posted on 2003/04/01

http://www.mermaniac.com/archives/ cat_dvds.html#002213 - Cached

obsessive

  „I like my DVDs to come with a commentary. It's just one of those things that tell me the studio (or whoever) really cares about the product. I know that some filmmakers are averse to commentaries (Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg come to mind), but most embrace the opportunity to go on the record for their films, and I applaud them for it.“

Found at a page of Bill, posted on 2002/07/19

http://www.mermaniac.com/archives/002079.html - Cached

Burn and Copy DVDs with DVD burner software!

  „Just put DVD into the DVD drive, a blank CDR in the CD writer, click "Copy" and go!“

http://greatware.net/entertainment/dvd_to_cd/ dvd_software.htm - Cached

Welcome to www.p2pnet.net - Self-destructing DVDs are a bust, says report

  „In the meanwhile, to, "thwart industry threats" to stop the sale of its DVD Copy Plus software and interactive tutorial for making personal backup copies of DVDs, 321 is currently suing nine major movie companies, including Disney, challenging the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and citing its free speech rights under the First Amendment.“

http://www.p2pnet.net/june03/rentdvd.html - Cached

Disney Animated DVDs

  „DVD Details: This collection features 32 training, propaganda and educational short films, as well as hundreds of insignia designs, which the Studio delivered to the war effort (of World War II) as part of their patriotic contribution. Features the full-length feature Victory Through Air Power.“

http://www.geocities.com/mikemckiernan/ disneydvd2.html - Cached

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