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Domino's Uses Pizza-Smelling Thermal Ink on Rented DVDs [video]

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Re: Domino's Uses Pizza-Smelling Thermal Ink on Rented DVDs [video]

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post #12

More (such) instances of subliminal messaging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instances_of_subliminal_message... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_messages_in_popular_...

There is subliminal messaging then there is marketing that slaps you in the face.

Re: Domino's Uses Pizza-Smelling Thermal Ink on Rented DVDs [video]

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post #13
post #12

More (such) instances of subliminal messaging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instances_of_subliminal_message... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_messages_in_popular_...

There is subliminal messaging then there is marketing that slaps you in the face.

Superliminal.

Re: Domino's Uses Pizza-Smelling Thermal Ink on Rented DVDs [video]

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post #9

This is from 6 months ago... Did they ever actually do it, or was it just a stunt.

Sounds like an ad concept from an ad agency.

Most likely an agency concept to win new business. Most pitch ideas are just clever things that never get produced.

Re: Domino's Uses Pizza-Smelling Thermal Ink on Rented DVDs [video]

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This sounds very similar to something that Hideo Kojima mentioned wanting to do for a PC game: "So maybe when you put it [the game] in your disk drive and you're playing for about fifteen minutes, the heat from the disk drive interacts with that chemical and creates a certain smell. It smells like blood or something like that," he said through a translator. "And when you pull it out you see like a dying message on th…

"I got yelled at for it and they didn't let me do it."

Sounds like banking corporate culture. :-)

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