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post #31 of 36
4/17/03 at 10:30am
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Heh heh heh... Now the suckers are going to have to sell me a DVD player that has a built-in internal clock to make sure I can only watch the disk for 48 hours. What they don't know is that my current player will be around for years and I never set the clocks on any of my gizmo's (Just ask my VCR).


It has nothing to do with a clock. It's a chemical reaction with the oxygen in the air that causes the coating to turn opaque so the laser can't read the disc
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post #32 of 36
4/17/03 at 10:47am
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It has nothing to do with a clock. It's a chemical reaction with the oxygen in the air that causes the coating to turn opaque so the laser can't read the disc

I thought it was a photochemical reaction that is caused by the laser. It doesn't start until you play the disc.

Anybody remember my old anti-Divx webpage? It still exists at http://members.cox.net/wbundrick/nodivx.htm
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post #33 of 36
4/17/03 at 11:32am
Actually, you're both right. Both versions exist.
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post #34 of 36
4/17/03 at 11:39am
Bring it on!

Things were never so exciting around here as they were during Round #1. I was priveleged to be a part of Round #1.

The road may be long, but...in the words of someone else we all know..."the outcome is certain."

Why are some people intentionally stupid? Last time it was a bunch of lawyers. Who's next?
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post #35 of 36
4/17/03 at 12:04pm
Could the "opaque coating" version be defeated by a Disc Doctor? Don't they essentially scour a layer of plastic off the disc to remove scratches and such?

Just throw it in the DD to scour away the layer that has oxidized, then you have another do-it-yourself 48 hour window. Just repeat whenever you want to watch until the plastic is entirely gone.
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post #36 of 36
4/17/03 at 1:56pm
They could market these discs by having their first release be "Mission Impossible"

Once you open the disc, a voice chip would say: "Warning, This disc will self-destruct in 48 hours"
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