IMO, this wasn't a way to be more green but to save money on a lighter product (i.e. cheaper shipping). Might not seem like much I think it could add up.

I got my first Blu-ray case like this today, Pathfinder.  It doesn't really bother me...except...the security sticker was placed with a little bit of it in the open space of the recycled logo. I ripped it out of the case as not to have a problem with it later on. If Sony is using them too, I didn't get one in with the purchase of Ghostbusters. I usually do all my purchasing from Amazon, and have yet to have any damaged cases, discs, etc. Today I happened to go to Best Buy because I had a $5 reward zone coupon and knew I was going to pick up Ghostbusters, and pick over what they had left on sale from sunday.

I kinda prefer the recycled cases over the potato starch cases I sometimes come across. I'm worried that either they will degrade over time or that I will eat them someday when I'm hungry and there is no food in my apartment.

I agree... sure use the recycled plastic. I am all for that... but don't cut the cases to shreds!

It's a chance that I don't buy a lot of big studio productions (read mainstream Hollywood here), since almost everything I bought is by mail... They look awfully cheap and ugly to me, but at least they have created something worst than the snapper case

Quoting Danae Cassandra:

Quote:
Good point from W0m6at & Addicted2DVD ... would love to have all recycled plastic.  That's just fine and super cool.  Just hate those giant cutouts.  Little cutouts in the corners would be fine.  Just - why just where the DVD sits? 

Perhaps they wish them to get damaged to make customers buy new ones, hmm?

Like Astrakan, I store my DVDs well and treat them with respect when I get them out - out of the case -> into the player, out of the player -> into the case - but I already see discs come into my shop (we buy used DVDs) that I'm like "WTF did you do, use these as rollerskates over a gravel driveway?!"  As these sorts of cases become more prevalent I expect to see a lot more of this.

It's all a marketing fad. I'm down with using recycled products, but this is just a bad design and defeats the purpose of a storage case. It' supposed to keep the disc inside safe, not just be a vessel to get it to the store or the cosumer's home.

And yes, most people don't know squat about taking care of or even handling dvds. In recent library check-outs, I've had about 50% failure rate due my player getting old and more sensitive, and discs looking like they've been cleaned with sandpaper. I mean deep gouges that my little hand-powered resurfacer can't get out. Another was coated in what looked like peanut-butter, I hope it was peanut-butter.  
Of these about 75% played after I had to use my special soap and resurfacer (this isn't one that rips up the old layers, it's a rotating sponge with soap cleaner that will remove shallow gouges when you add pressure while spinning it) and the rest either rip a "watching copy" from my computer (comps laser seems to be much better than any player I've ever had, it reads lots of discs I thought were goners), and a couple that not even the computer could play. Last trip to Blockbuster I was going to buy a used disc, but it had something on it I could identify or remove, like super-glue maybe.

Long story short, every used disc I go to buy I demand to look at first, as only about half are usable in my player. I'll only buy super-rare stuff used online if I have to have it, even then I ask for pictures or gaurantees that it will play and not be scuffed into something else.

Yeah, I've come across several of those. Wish other studios would go that route but they haven't, lol.

^ Maybe, but I think these studios (like Fox and Warner) probably buy in bulk from a specific manufacturer so unless they change or sign a new contract with another company, it might be around for a while still.