Recently, SlashGear posted an article recalling the disc technology called Flexplay, which was born in the early 2000s when rental disc viewing was still very popular.
It turned out that at that time, some DVD shops found that there would always be cases where customers would not return the discs or even lost or forgotten them. As a result, some manufacturers took a fancy to the business opportunities here and came up with a self-destructing disc called Flexplay.
Simply put, this is a special DVD that can only be played for 48 hours. Once the disc starts to come into contact with oxygen, it will cause the adhesive resin to chemically react, and the disc will then slowly begin to change color pink and wait until it is completely black. The result is that it can no longer be read, and you can throw it away.
The idea doesn’t seem so completebeautifulIt looks like, but I didn’t expect that more than 2,000 genuine companies including Disney used it after its launch. By 2004, most of them were abandoned, because it caused a lot of waste of discs.
In 2008, Flexplay made a comeback and persuaded the Staples store to put it on the shelves, but a few months later, because no one bought it and many bad reviews, it was taken off the shelf and retired from the stage of history.