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I queried Flexplay directly on this. I asked specifically whether Flexplay discs are compliant with the DVD Forum specifications for DVDs, and noted that the absence of the registered DVD logo on their site suggests that they are not. I asked whether Flexplay discs can properly be called DVDs. I received this reply:
This answer clearly _fails_ to say that the discs themselves are compliant with the DVD Forum specifications. And I read it to say that Flexplay discs contain a "registered Flexplay logo" rather than a DVD logo. Accordingly, I'm revising the article text to say "Flexplay says that its discs are produced to be fully readable in standard DVD players. However, technically they are not DVDs as they do not comply with the DVD Forum specifications for a DVD, and do not bear the registered DVD logo."
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.
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)
I use only Verbatim media that's rated for 100 years and find these purposely fragile disks deeply amoral. But so is also Wikipedia with the policy for extemely poor quality pictures for which the fair use rationale take up more space than the graphic itself. -- J7n ( talk) 23:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
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)
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)
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 - - -
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)
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 /info/en/?search=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)
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I queried Flexplay directly on this. I asked specifically whether Flexplay discs are compliant with the DVD Forum specifications for DVDs, and noted that the absence of the registered DVD logo on their site suggests that they are not. I asked whether Flexplay discs can properly be called DVDs. I received this reply:
This answer clearly _fails_ to say that the discs themselves are compliant with the DVD Forum specifications. And I read it to say that Flexplay discs contain a "registered Flexplay logo" rather than a DVD logo. Accordingly, I'm revising the article text to say "Flexplay says that its discs are produced to be fully readable in standard DVD players. However, technically they are not DVDs as they do not comply with the DVD Forum specifications for a DVD, and do not bear the registered DVD logo."
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.
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)
I use only Verbatim media that's rated for 100 years and find these purposely fragile disks deeply amoral. But so is also Wikipedia with the policy for extemely poor quality pictures for which the fair use rationale take up more space than the graphic itself. -- J7n ( talk) 23:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
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)
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)
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 - - -
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)
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 /info/en/?search=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)