I mean I can see some limited appeal, for fans of someone or some studio or director that doesnt have a comp or something like that.

It would be just old recycled porn, not anything new, or any new talent, It just doesnt sound like much of anything that is that interesting to me, but maybe some people would love it, and good for them. I dont see too many studios if any that would even consider doing something like this in massive amounts.

I would however be very interested in being able to contact a studio and picking who performs in what kind of scenes for a new picture, but that wouldnt a possibility.

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All of a sudden, you don't have a custom video. You have the prototype for a commercial release.

Scott Kinney
Diversified Video Associates
www.xxx-imports.com

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I think the you're both missing the point. The point of a custom-made DVD is that it's customized to your individual preferences - not mass-produced.

It's obvious that the music industry is managing this issue poorly right now. Let's face facts, porn has always been on the leading edge of technology and I think they're a lot smarter than the RIAA and the way they're taking on the CD buying public.

Considering how many rips (of video and music) are out there on Kazaa and the rate that old tv series are being released on dvd, it's just a matter of time before they realize the profit potential of customization. In fact, they already are with video on demand through the internet.

People are slowly customizing CDs and it's just a matter of time before they start customizing DVDs on a massive scale. The potential for this also seems more tailored to porn than mainstream movies since the buyers are interested in certain segments only rather than an entire feature.

It's just a matter of time before technology becomes feasible. I, for one, hopes it's soon.

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Understand what you are saying but the DVD is a slightly diffferent animal.

With music, it's easier because you can skip tunes, and the player looks for the next 'blank' spot and knows it's at the beginning of a tune.

However with DVDs one of the bennies that we have become used to is chapter stops so we can jump around to access what we want. Chapter stops (or jumps) have to be programmed in during the mastering portion. So a master has to be made (and programmed). That is going to be much more labor intensive and will add to the expense (not to mention time and trouble). As Scott pointed out they would expect a run of about 1000 copies so for a customized DVD it would be a hope and a prayer that others would want the exact same buildup of scenes.

With that kind of effort the cost would go up dramatically and I don't think the potential buyer would want to pay it.

I can just see that if this was not done then the comments would come back "this DVD is crap, you have to play it through from start to finish like a VHS tape". The only alternative would be to FF through it like we do on VHS.

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The source DVD's would be in some type of mega changer. People would be able to select a scene and it would be copied to a hard drive or directly to a target DVD (probably the former) and given a name representing title 1, chapter 1. This process would continue until the consumer purchased enough scenes to fill the DVD or he/she didn't want any more scenes. If the data had initally copied to a hard drive, it would then be copied to the DVD.

Although, technically, this would work, given current technology, it would take too long for this to be practical.

Also, I assume that there is currently some complicated royalty structure and data reporting when this type of process is done for CD's. The fact that it is being done with large corporations probably makes this feasible. I would think that coming up with viable royalty and royalty structure between "Mom & Pop" video stores and adult video companies is probably unlikely.

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