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A system and method for allowing a customer to rent or purchase a video on an optically readable medium is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the invention consists of a kiosk at which a customer makes a video selection and the video is written to the optically readable medium, such as a DVD, wit

A system and method for allowing a customer to rent or purchase a video on an optically readable medium is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the invention consists of a kiosk at which a customer makes a video selection and the video is written to the optically readable medium, such as a DVD, within the kiosk. By applying an opaquing layer that becomes opaque with exposure to light and/or air or due to the passage of time, the rented video becomes unreadable and the customer need not return the rented video to a video rental store. Because the video kiosk writes the video content to the DVD, the video kiosk is only limited to the number of stored blank DVDs rather than a fixed number of copies of a video as is a video rental store.

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A system and method for allowing a customer to rent or purchase a video on an optically readable medium is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the invention consists of a kiosk at which a customer makes a video selection and the video is written to the optically readable medium, such as a DVD, wit

A system and method for allowing a customer to rent or purchase a video on an optically readable medium is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the invention consists of a kiosk at which a customer makes a video selection and the video is written to the optically readable medium, such as a DVD, within the kiosk. By applying an opaquing layer that becomes opaque with exposure to light and/or air or due to the passage of time, the rented video becomes unreadable and the customer need not return the rented video to a video rental store. Because the video kiosk writes the video content to the DVD, the video kiosk is only limited to the number of stored blank DVDs rather than a fixed number of copies of a video as is a video rental store. s of an annulus, each of the substantially equally wide concentric radial sectors of an annulus having circularly concentric parallel trapezoid sides and each of the substantially equally wide concentric radial sectors of an annulus having a linear right radial side extending in between a top side and a bottom side of an annulus; and, each having a lineal left radial side extending in between the top and the bottom side of an annulus; beginning from the center of the inner upper wheel, the first, third, and fifth substantially equally wide concentric radial sectors of an annulus being blank, the first substantially equally wide concentric radial sector of an annulus having displayed thereon the term 2T; the second substantially equally wide concentric radial sector of an annulus having displayed thereon the term 1T; the third substantially equally wide concentric radial sector of an annulus having displayed thereon the term 2t; the fourth substantially equally wide concentric radial sector of an annulus having displayed thereon the term 1t; the fifth substantially equally wide concentric radial sector of an annulus having displayed thereon the term 3/4t; the sixth substantially equally wide concentric radial sector of an annulus having displayed thereon the term 1/2t; the seventh substantially equally wide concentric radial sector of an annulus having displayed thereon the term 1/4t; and the eighth substantially equally wide concentric radial sector of an annulus having displayed thereon the term 1/8. 2. The instrument according to claim 1 wherein the second 60" sector is located clockwise 120" from the first 60" sector; the 120" sector occupying a circular space of 120" clockwise rotation from the first 60" sector; and, wherein another 30" sector is located counterclockwise adjacent said first blank space. 3. The instrument according to claim 2 wherein the outer lower wheel is comprised of about twelve segments of a circle wherein alternate segments are blank and remaining segments each have information displayed thereon and wherein said information is displayed in concentric sectors of annuli. 4. The instrument according to claim 3 wherein said segments are substantially equally arrayed radially apart. 5. The instrument according to claim 4 wherein said twelve segments each occupy about 30". 6. The instrument according to claim 5 wherein each of the about 30" segments having information displayed thereon and confined in concentric sectors of an annulus further comprises at least nine equally spaced concentric sectors of annuli and wherein a first segment has indicated thereon proceeding from an outermost annulus to an innermost annulus a following sequence of food measurement information consisting of half, of, recipe, 1/2c, 6T, 1/3c, 1/4c, 8t, 2T, and 11/2T. 7. The instrument according to claim 6 wherein a second clockwise segment has indicated thereon, proceeding from an outermost annulus to an innermost annulus the following food measure information in the following sequence: third, of, recipe, 1/3c, 4T, 102/3t, 8t, 51/3t, 4t, and 3t. 8. The instrument according to claim 7 wherein a third clockwise segment has indicated thereon, proceeding from an outermost annulus to an innermost annulus the following food measure information in the following sequence: quarter, of, recipe, 1/4c, 3T, 8t, 2T, 4t, and 21/4t. 9. The instrument according to claim 8 wherein a fourth clockwise segment has indicated thereon, proceeding from an outermost annulus to an innermost annulus the following food measure information in the following sequence: a first blank space, 1/16t, 1/8t, 1/4t, 3/8t, 1/2t, 1t, and 1T. 10. An instrument for computing proportions of an original recipe for a fixed number of servings other than specified in said recipe comprising: (a) A substantially round inner upper wheel; (b) A substantially round outer lower wheel; (c) A means for rotatably connecting said inner upper wheel to said outer lower wheel, s