Talk:Flexplay

message: In regard to the earlier comment, I'm concerned that the author would take the lack of an affirmative to therefore mean a negative.  It's like saying that because my car doesn't actually have "C A R" stamped across it it's therefore not a car.
Without affirmative guidance that these discs do not comply with the DVD standards, I'm editing to remove that line from the text.
*Wordsmithed and reinserted. This is an important point. The discs do not bear the DVD logo, and that was confirmed by the company. I now present the company's own words on this matter. Readers can decide for themselves whether or not "designed to be readable in DVD players adhering to DVD Forum standards" means the same thing as "adheres to DVD Forum standards." This is an important point. The industry sets standards so that consumers can be assured that CDs will play in CD players, DVDs will play in DVD players, and companies like Flexplay undermine this by producing products that only work in players that have enough tolerance to accommodate out-of-spec discs. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:39, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maybe, maybe not... 

message: If the discs can be read by any standard DVD player, then they can be copied by any standard DVD drive. Did they not make any attempt to prevent this?
65.95.157.80 22:43, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the point? 

message: Effects of freezing the disc to prolong it?
effects of a hot dvd player degrading it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mix Bouda-Lycaon (talk • contribs) 19:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freezer Burn? 

message: There should be a section on what the environmental impact would be if these things actually catch on. It seems to me that adding a disc created primarily out of polymerized bisphenol-A to the environment every single time someone views a movie might eventually pose a problem.Zaphraud (talk) 19:08, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Environmental Impact

message: How about a section that lists all the movies/programs that were released on Flexplay DVDs and when they were released?
Other than the few titles mentioned in this Talk section, I only know of four other titles - - -
::Open Range (which I have)
::Undisputed {listed on the back of my Open Range packaging}
::Cold Creek Manor {also listed on the back of the packaging}
::Under The Tuscan Sun {also listed on the back}
So, what do all of you think about including a section or list of the movies released in this format? 2600:8800:786:A300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 04:34, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  What movies? 

message: The claim in order to protect the expired discs from being read in next-generation players using blue lasers, for which the oxidized blue-color layer is essentially transparent is, to the best of my knowledge technically wrong, and obviously not covered by the source given. In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc#Physical_details (... "that the part of the light reflected from its peak is 1/2 wavelength out of phase with the light reflected from the land around it. This causes partial cancellation of the laser's reflection from the surface") obviously only works with the correct laser wavelength matching the pit depth of the disc being read, and here's a refence (http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/Blu-ray/site1/diode.html) showing 3 different diodes integrated in a blu ray player, so that the player can read CDs and DVDs at all.
Does anyone have any evidence at all that specifically using blue dye was intended to prevent reading in a blu ray player?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.78.231.251 (talk) 11:30, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  using blue lasers