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 Posted: Sun, 14th Jan 2007 11:52 Post subject: HD DVD versus Blu-ray - The porn industry says HD DVD |
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Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between the adult and tech industries - porn has a tendency to drive, and be driven, by technology. Which means HD DVD when it comes to high-def.
Quite famously in the war between Betamax and VHS the latter won especially because the adult industry preferred it. If you've been around long enough, you probably remember that the very early home video rental stores were primarily responsible for driving Betamax out of the market. And those stores carried almost exclusively pornographic content.
Although the market environments from then do not really compare to today's home video market, parallels are drawn between the Betamax-VHS battle to the ongoing and escalating fight between Blu-ray and HD DVD. One of the key questions at this year's CES actually is "Which high-def format will win the current format war - Blu-ray or HD DVD?" Surprisingly, it seems that there is no such question in the minds of the adult industry luminaries.
Putting myself through the arduous trek through the floor of the adult expo I did a quick straw poll on, the virtues of HD DVD versus Blu-ray, and the answer from a dozen companies, big and small, including Pink Visual and Bangbros editor-in-chief, is going into a single direction: HD DVD is the preferred format. Period.
One of the big problems they have with Blu-ray is its expense, followed by its market share. "Blu-ray has superior quality, yes," said a spokesperson for porn studio Bangbros, "but HD DVD is easier to produce, cheaper to produce and there are more HD DVD players in homes than there are Blu-ray players, for example in the Xbox 360."
Pink Visual heavily complained about the fact that Blu-ray discs cannot be replicated and a range of other studios, who did not want to be mentioned by name indicated that the cost of going with Blu-ray cancels the technology as a possible HD solution for this industry. "Only bigger studios can afford Blu-ray, and even then it's not economical," we were told.
It would seem that either Blu-ray has to do some catching up very quickly. But we got the strange feeling that HD DVD has won the format war already, at least in the porn industry.
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chiv
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when the porn industry makes a statement like this, its not something you can dismiss as unimportant... the industry is a very early adopter of tech, and tends to be somewhat of a driving force... personally, i really dont think bluray will win, purely because of one primary fault... sony... they are COMPLETELY out of touch with consumers... one need only point out their umd movie format as an example. over priced, underfeatured, badly marketted, and the studios that supported it got pretty much shafted. no wonder its been dropped.
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Sun, 14th Jan 2007 16:35 Post subject: |
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The porn industry says HD DVD, I say HD DVD.
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| Posted: Sun, 14th Jan 2007 18:44 Post subject: |
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i say tcp/ip
until aacs and hdcp and related are fixed into a proper uncrippled state, they can keep their shitty discs
on the note though.. sony has been incredibly stupid for a few years now
the rootkit, ps3, this... hell, they just announced their blu-ray disc drive for sale that you can't even use to watch films with
the level of incompetence is staggering
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| s_hole wrote: | i say tcp/ip
until aacs and hdcp and related are fixed into a proper uncrippled state, they can keep their shitty discs
on the note though.. sony has been incredibly stupid for a few years now
the rootkit, ps3, this... hell, they just announced their blu-ray disc drive for sale that you can't even use to watch films with
the level of incompetence is staggering |
blue rays also don't play CD's and burn dvds slower than molasses  |
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chiv
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i have gone years without hearing the word molasses.. now all of a sudden i hear it twice within 24 hours... coincidence? i think NOT.... something weirds goin on here, and I intend to find out what...
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| Posted: Mon, 15th Jan 2007 06:03 Post subject: |
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| chiv wrote: | | i have gone years without hearing the word molasses.. now all of a sudden i hear it twice within 24 hours... coincidence? i think NOT.... something weirds goin on here, and I intend to find out what... |
thank you, I near choked on my Lays chip with onion dip when I read that....
news article
"Death by french oniojn dip* |
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Bigperm
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| Posted: Tue, 16th Jan 2007 23:25 Post subject: |
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Well i agree that Hd-DVD is the better standard.
But what is this guy smoking
"Blu-ray has superior quality, yes," said a spokesperson for porn studio Bangbros
Blueray encodes suck compared to HD-DVD encodes. Hd-DVD does alot more with less; well technically not less anymore since toshiba announced there 51gb disk.
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