Oddity Archive: Episode 107.5 - Flexplay Disposable DVD Update

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  • Опубліковано 25 гру 2024

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  • @Lakes57
    @Lakes57 8 років тому +15

    Of course, this now requires to be an annual "Zombie Disc Test" event video. :)

  • @crabbyoldgamer3028
    @crabbyoldgamer3028 8 років тому +18

    At some point it will decay to beyond the beginning of the movie. It will begin decaying reality until the entire history of the universe is gone.
    Destroy that disc now!

  • @daveporter0217
    @daveporter0217 8 років тому +8

    I know that this clip is about Flexplay, but I recently saw a man wearing a DIVX polo, and laughed, thinking about the previous episode about it.

  • @SmeddyTooBestChannel
    @SmeddyTooBestChannel 8 років тому +18

    I enjoy the face it freezes on way too much.

  • @wildbilltexas
    @wildbilltexas 8 років тому +8

    I remember seeing those Flexplay DVD's being sold off at the mom & pop dollar stores in East Texas about a decade ago. Glad I never bought them.

  • @Brillemeister
    @Brillemeister 8 років тому +5

    Is that the face that greets new arrivals to purgatory?

  • @LambdaVideos
    @LambdaVideos 8 років тому +7

    I could never understand why they thought that disposable DVDs were a good thing.

    • @otaking3582
      @otaking3582 8 років тому +2

      Consumers would be more likely to spend more money, either from buying the same disposable discs over and over, or deciding to get the regular DVD version if they like the movie well enough

    • @newstarcadefan
      @newstarcadefan 8 років тому +2

      Yup, that didn't turn out well since consumers decided they didn't want to keep buying discs over and over again, and they also didn't want to make the landfill problem worse.

    • @LambdaVideos
      @LambdaVideos 8 років тому +2

      Yeah, which is ironic since they touted them as "disposable"

    • @mulletboater
      @mulletboater 7 років тому +3

      the idea was: for the same cost as renting, you see the film without having to return to the video shop and, no risk of late fees. a big backfire was, you realized they could just make a really low cost DVD without a self destruct mechanism, and, it made people bitter towards the media companies, not like super bitter, but, it added to cynicism. it was part of this strange revival in the mid 00s of 70s style conspicuous waste. Like a cultural rebellion to the environmental consciousness of the 90s. this was when: people were getting giant SUVs and trucks, and, they would have those truck nuts, this was despite gas prices being at an all time high. Styrofoam was starting to come back, and, other little things. The disposable DVDs kind of fit into the whole scene. Learning from archive that, they were treated with a corrosive chemical that probably hindered the recovery of the steel and plastic if anyone bothered to recycle them makes it feel all the more galling.

  • @betteryearentertainment4004
    @betteryearentertainment4004 4 місяці тому

    "We get 90% of the fuel."
    For all eternity.

  • @ilexgarodan
    @ilexgarodan 8 років тому +4

    Are those D&D books and boxed sets on the left of your TV?

    • @ilexgarodan
      @ilexgarodan 8 років тому +3

      And, on a closer view, no. They are not. Never mind!

  • @Blazikenpwnsyou
    @Blazikenpwnsyou 5 років тому +6

    Unfortunately you've said the forbidden D word and didn't censor it out. Too late to fake it now. :P
    And nearly 3 years later, they didn't hunt you down for saying their name. ...Why bother censoring the company's name again? Fear of God?
    However, I don't wish any form of ill fate, oh no. I'm just pointing an oversight in the beginning portion of the video. X3

  • @Mayala285
    @Mayala285 7 років тому +1

    i didnt see this video....... well here i go.

  • @JediMasterBaiter
    @JediMasterBaiter 8 років тому +1

    5:20 - 404'd!

  • @otaking3582
    @otaking3582 8 років тому +2

    Since when did standalone bluray players have the Xmedia Bar like a PSX/PSP/PS3?

    • @Colorband
      @Colorband 8 років тому +6

      Must be a Sony - my Sony Blu-ray player has the same interface.

    • @NeverMindMan
      @NeverMindMan 8 років тому +6

      Sony Blu-ray players have them. In fact, I own a Sony Blu-ray player myself.

    • @FairPlay137
      @FairPlay137 7 років тому

      UltimateOverlord T.Y. Netees Same here.

  • @yeeterskeeter5740
    @yeeterskeeter5740 5 років тому +1

    Tbh, your lucky that disk will even play at all.

  • @nkextrask.f.4839
    @nkextrask.f.4839 8 років тому

    I have the same Blu-Ray player.

    • @AllisonDancerChick1982
      @AllisonDancerChick1982 4 роки тому

      Likewise - I've had it for 8 1/2 years. It doesn't get much use these days, but it still works really well.

  • @und4287
    @und4287 6 років тому +1

    1:09 :D

  • @Thompsonnw
    @Thompsonnw 2 роки тому

    Disney. Ahem? Not here Benny Boy.