Flexplay Entertainment has announced that Hudson Groupl will be selling their Flexplay DVDs in newsstands and booksellers in airports and transportation terminals throughout the U.S. and Canada, starting in September. The limited-life Flexplay DVDs have a 2-day viewing period once the seal is broken, however the customer is not required to start watching the same day [...]

Staples is set to begin selling self-destructing DVDs, made by Flexplay, which will render themselves unplayable within 48 hours of breaking the packaging’s seal. The discs will go on sale sometime this month for $4.99 each. Flexplay claims that the discs are “fully recyclable and conform to all applicable EPA environmental standards.” Unfortunately, just because something [...]

This is the first I have heard of these “self-destructing” discs. They actually don’t “destruct”, but instead become unreadable. They are known as DVD-D, and come in three different variations. The first is a single play disc, that once played to the end cannot be played again. The second is the 8-hour disc that expires [...]