This really irritates me!

**Darksol** · 10-04-2005, 05:06 PM

Microsoft thinks they can succeed where DivX failed. In fact they are trying to beat DivX.

http://thebusinessonline.com/Stories...E-D07EB5AA1CEE

They have created a one play only DVD.

Some companies have done this before but this is MS. Eeesssh! I'm sick of reading these stories. Maybe I'll put on blinders.

**Shane R. Monroe** · 10-04-2005, 05:35 PM

Didn't I say like 6 years ago that MS wanted to own your living room?

Only the people can stop MS now ...

**Flare** · 10-04-2005, 06:14 PM

Is this like that lame "rotting" DVD that after you opened it, it would decompose itself in 48 hours?

That one failed miserably, I cannot see how this one would succeed.

**WorknMan** · 10-04-2005, 06:16 PM

Only the people can stop MS now ...

Actually, only the people could stop MS all along

**Shamus** · 10-04-2005, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by flare

Is this like that lame "rotting" DVD that after you opened it, it would decompose itself in 48 hours?

That one failed miserably, I cannot see how this one would succeed.

I believe you're thinking of the idiotic EZ-D. I love this quote:

Since the disc was capable of being used in any standard DVD player, the manufacturers hoped it would succeed where other time-limited DVD technologies, such as DIVX, failed. Test marketing began on August 2003 and was canceled early when consumers rejected the concept.

I love it--the 'you own nothing' concept extended to the real world. I'm guessing that this is Microsoft's lame attempt to ressurrect this tech that people OBVIOUSLY don't want. I do hope they sink lots of cash into it the way the company I work for did (and, wisely, no longer does).

**Darksol** · 10-04-2005, 09:20 PM

Yeah who would be stupid enough to buy this s*hit?
'Looks out windows to see people walking on sidewalk'

**redrain85** · 10-05-2005, 03:25 PM

This is basically the same crap Disney tried to sell a couple of years back . . . and it failed miserably.

Plus, the idea of all that plastic going in the garbage after one use, makes me sick.