Your opinion of new Blu-ray cases with cut-outs?

[aramis109]

Originally Posted by racerx1965

I love the idea of being 'green', but this implementation is horrid. If this becomes the defacto standard then I will replace all of the 'green' cases with standard cases and then throw away the 'green' cases. So now I will be less 'green' than if they stuck with the standard cases.

While it's a little extreme, I actually had the same thought myself. I really think these cases are a bad idea. They're going to end up having the opposite effect. However, here's a bit from Jeff Kleist over on the Bits thread:

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

The recycled cases use something like 30% less plastic, they are less weight to ship around, less gas, less oil used to make them etc

No, no one likes them, and it's gone all the way up the PR depts when they first started hitting.

When it comes to cases, outside of expressing a preference for a certain kind, it's up to what the replicator has in stock

I think they'll stop using them when they get a lot of retailer returns for damaged artwork

But that will probably take 6 months at least. In the end they will probably come up with a way to take the plastic out without cutting holes in it, personally I wouldn't mind sacrificing that waste of space blu-ray bump, but I guess that's here to stay