I remember reading somewhere about a year ago that the fight between Blue Ray & HD might ultimately be decided by the Porn Industry. For example, VHS & Beta…we all know which format won that battle. Here’s the problem. From what I can remember about the article I read, Blue Ray is a more robust format, but the owners/movers & shakers (Sony being one of them that I remember) of the Blue Ray format won’t allow porn movies to be used with their format. So my questions is, does anyone know which format if any as yet the Porn Industry has chosen? Or is it possible by now Sony & others have changed their stance on the porn movies which of course according to the article would make Blue Ray a clear winner?
HD-DVD is over and Toshiba has stopped making players. Netflix doesn't even rent HD-DVD discs anymore. If you do a search in the title search field for 'Blu-ray' you'll see all the adult titles that have come out on Blu-ray disc.
And the porn industry had nothing to do with it. And Blu-Ray is itself over. It's all going to be about Media Servers downloading fat Hi-Def video files.
Blu-rays are definitely being used now in porn videos. I think the future eventually do without blu-rays because everyone will be downloading, but in my opinion I still prefer having a hard-copy of a blu-ray instead of a downloaded copy saved to my HDD.
did Sony relax on their stand towards porn or did they not have any say in weather or not porn can use blu-ray? i dont think you get the same quilaty from downloads as you get from dvd or blu-ray.
I don't think they're holding their breath waiting on hi-def downloads in any of the many small towns that dot mid-America. Even if they have cable modems the odds are that the bandwidth just isn't there.
Yep. I have AT&T high speed DSL along with Direcv and it takes fuckin' forever to download an HD movie On Demand. I'm waiting for Oppo to release their highly anticipated Blu Ray player and I'll be all set. I want to be able to pop in a high def disc and play it any time I choose.
I always prefer owning my own hard-copy. Besides, who needs an Internet trail of all your smut habits when Big Brother decides to round-up the perverts?
Technically, Sony never had any say in whether porn was produced on Blu-ray or not. However, in the beginning, Columbia (which is owned by Sony) and Disney did have an affect on the ability to make adult Blu-ray discs. Back in the days of VHS, both Columbia & Disney had problem with replicators screwing up and accidentally putting adult content on what was supposed to be Columbia or Disney product. Since then, both companies have had a policy of not doing business with any company that works on porn in the same facility that they work on Columbia or Disney content. When Blu-ray was first introduced, there were so few companies replicating Blu-ray discs, those companies had a choice of working for Columbia & Disney or adult companies. Since there was much more profit available from Columbia/Disney, they chose not to work with adult companies. Now that there are more companies replicating Blu-ray discs and some of the companies who have been in Blu-ray since the beginning have multiple facilities, Blu-rey replication is more available to the adult industry.
Wireless servers are the next wave. I'm already watching lots of stuff off of files on my laptop. The quality is top-rate and it's the major reason I got a hi-Def tv ... It's great watching Kink and Killergram scenes that way ... not to mention obscure Asian cult cinema. Edited by - skronker on 11/15/2008 4:00:26 PM
I found this very interesting article dated March 4, 2008. What Are the Lessons of the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Battle? A Freakonomics Quorum It has the perspective of several "smart people who think about such things." I tried to find something as recent as possible. I found many articles from last year but they didn't quite reflect the current situation between Blue-ray & HD. Reading them was quite interesting though.