{"id":1364,"date":"2009-03-03T23:06:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T07:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:03:47","slug":"a381-flexplay-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"#a381 :: Flexplay DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/0303091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1370\" title=\"0303091\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/0303091-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"0303091\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/0303091-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/0303091-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/0303091.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This is one of those freaks of science that will have completely obsolesced within 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>I weep at the sheer volume and depth of technological experimentation and collaboration that culminated in its manufacture &#8211; all of it doomed to the landfill and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flexplay\">fascinating footnote in Wikipedia<\/a> because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexplay.com\/\">FlexPlay<\/a>&#8216;s very wizardry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Flexplay disc is shipped in a vacuum-sealed package. There is a clear dye inside the disc, contained within the bonding resin of the disc, which reacts with oxygen. When the seal is broken on the vacuum-packed disc, the layer changes from clear to black in about 48 hours, rendering the disc unplayable. If unopened, the shelf life of the sealed package is said to be &#8220;about a year.&#8221; The DVD plastic also has a red dye in it, which prevents penetration of the disc by blue lasers, which would go straight through the oxygen-reactive dye.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can get some pretty decent movies in this format for like a buck-99 at Staples &#8211; provided you&#8217;re willing to accept the responsibility for recycling the damn thing, or the guilt from just hucking it into the trash.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped halfway through &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=the+kite+runner&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">The Kite Runner<\/a>&#8221; this evening since it was getting late.<\/p>\n<p>Hope we get to see the rest of it tomorrow night &#8211; before the disk goes the hyperaccelerated way of all flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those freaks of science that will have completely obsolesced within 10 years. I weep at the sheer volume and depth of technological experimentation and collaboration that culminated in its manufacture &#8211; all of it doomed to the landfill and a fascinating footnote in Wikipedia because of FlexPlay&#8216;s very wizardry: A Flexplay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-ephemera","category-jetsam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}