i guess i'm a hard copy stalwart. vive le dvd!
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| SashaGrey Member  472 Posts 7/06 |  Posted - Oct 24 2007 : 11:28PMSo, the news is dvd is dying-correct? What happens to the features? If most pornography is consumed online, will you download your favorite features such as Pirates, Operation Desert Stormy, The Fashionistas, etc...? What does this mean for larger companies who cater to couples looking for more narrative build up and titillation? Or the kinky fans who like to see BDSM, but can only watch in their favorite feature? SInce BDSM is online without narratives (primarily) does this mean these fans will go to the already established Internet companies? How about packaging? I myself covet my dvd collection as well as my cd/vinyl collections. What will you do? the fuck junkie ♠ [Link] |
| ma meeshka Iconoclastic Member 3939 Posts 4/06 | Posted - Oct 24 2007 : 11:47PM i guess i'm a hard copy stalwart. vive le dvd! [Link] |
Flash  Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01 | Posted - Oct 25 2007 : 12:03AM [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Oct 25 2007 : 2:24AM BTW nice to see you working with Joe Gallant in The Skin Trade. [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Oct 25 2007 : 12:05PM [Link] |
| backdoorman Senior Member Shake for me girl... I wanna be your backdoorman ! 2776 Posts 10/07 | Posted - Oct 25 2007 : 9:44PM [Link] |
| caroline-NL Member 543 Posts 3/07 | Posted - Oct 26 2007 : 9:00AM I talked with many sexshop/videostore owners in Europe. The sale of DVDs is even higher than 2 or 3 years before, but the prices went down much more, so the profit is lower. Especially in US porn, too many companys have a high price when the DVD is released, but they reduce it to 50% or even 75%, after just 2 or 3 months. So many customers just wait or only rent. Only WICKED has a better strategy, at least in Europe, they dont reduce their old DVDs exorbitantly ( around 10% ). And they have a large backcatalogue, Ive ordered quite a lot of older titles, and there never was a problem. Some companys cant even deliver titles ( or want ? ) half a year old. Download is more a problem regarding cheap porn sampler and boxoffice hits. The normal back programm, and especially classics, like "Jaws", "Star Wars", "E.T." are always going strong. Almost all of the customers have this movies, but they rent them because of the bonus material on DVD. The Porn flood of the last years, with many, many extremely bad porn "movies", is mostly responsible for the so-called "crisis". But its only a crisis, if you look at the low profits, not at the number of porn movies rented or bought. [Link] |
| Dracula Member Women's necks are too damned sexy for me! 756 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Oct 26 2007 : 10:46AM [Link] |
| phatbasey Senior Member 1390 Posts 1/05 | Posted - Oct 26 2007 : 12:36PM [Link] |
| juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 | Posted - Oct 27 2007 : 1:58PM Perhaps more Gonzo companies will go online only. But Feature connoisseurs will continue to buy DVDs. The quality gap between Feature and Gonzo production will grow. [Link] |
| Savoy All-Star Member Sucker for Sinners 1844 Posts 12/06 | Posted - Oct 31 2007 : 6:47AM I don't think we'll get to the point where all porn is consumed by VOD and website subscriptions. People usually want to touch something they just spent money on. It makes their purchase more satisfying. [Link] |
| darkside762000 Member United Kingdom 91 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Oct 31 2007 : 6:55AM It is certainly conceivable that we could move towards an intangible media model at some point in the near future. Walgreens are apparently going to start rolling out DVD burning booths in their stores, so this is a big step in that direction. It's a boon for retailers because there is no physical stock that has to be stored, moved, inventoried, sold at a discount to make room for new releases. It will also pose an interesting challenge for shoplifters. However, the issue then becomes one of 'Why go to the store when we can just download and burn it at home?'. So I believe store chains could end up shooting themselves in the foot somewhat on this one. As soon as download-to-burn really takes off and one of the big consumer electronics companies rolls out a ubiquitous disc burner that can also print artwork on the disc face at a reasonable price, then finished copy DVDs (or HD-DVDs, or Blu-Ray, or whatever) will become defunct. Media companies (be they porn, mainstream, record companies, video game designers or whatever) would do well to start reevaluating their business models with an eye on non-digital hard goods, i.e. ancillary merchandising...you can't get an action figure off of bit torrent, nor can you download a dildo from rapidshare. This will all be moot if the industries involved can begin to successfully crack down on piracy, but as yet, very little has happened on this front. In the future yet to come, I envisage a world wherein there are very few middlemen between the artist and their audience, and thus a bigger piece of the financial pie for the artist, or perhaps a lower cost for the consumer (look at Radiohead's new album, for example). The real winners will be the companies that media storage products (the discs, the disc burners, printers, pre-cut blank DVD sleeves, cases etc.). Media will still be ultimately tangible at the discretion of the end user, but it will very likely not be sold as such. [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Oct 31 2007 : 12:53PM You just can't compare a 1-GB scene on DVD with a 50-MB download from the internet. And, again, +1 hard-copy media  [Link] |
| Janitor Retired Porno movies, sexy videos, xxx. Adult DVD Talk at your service. 6409 Posts 11/99 | Posted - Oct 31 2007 : 1:19PM Steve Hirsch gives DVD 3 more years. He should know. I think DVD will still be around after that, but not a new release market - it'll be a bargain basement thing. [Link] |
| juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 | Posted - Nov 2 2007 : 4:11PM But the DVD has to be a collector's item with a booklet with glossy photos of the stars, etc. [Link] |
| pandoras box Member step inside the box 6 Posts 11/07 | Posted - Nov 5 2007 : 2:59PM The box cover is a huge selling point for dvds. If this is to happen, marketers are going to have to get creative. Not to mention the box cover is also really important for the performers. I do wonder if it would eventually effect their "star" quality in selling a movie? [Link] |
| Bernard Member usa 158 Posts 7/06 | Posted - Nov 5 2007 : 3:05PM I collect adult dvds I have around 600 now and im proud to display my collection.If its on the computer theirs just nothing to show. Yep im a collector. [Link] |
| Robert Member My past is a foreign country. Most things are different there, including word usage. 503 Posts 12/06 | Posted - Nov 5 2007 : 9:41PM Probably won't take as long a VHS, since the technology curve is not linear. They have stopped making VHS tapes and very soon they will not be making any VHS players. Probably within 10 years they will stop making DVDs and DVD players and that technology will be replaced with some form of "better, faster, cheaper." A likely candidate would be some form of chip memory, like the current PC memory sticks and of course cable/wi-fi downloads. The HD flat panel displays (all sizes, from hand-held to wall mounted) would have a small port that would accept and read the memory stick. Then, of course, in time, that technology will be replaced. Whether or not 'features' are produced will depend on the same factors as today. Can a profit be made. There might even be a point when live actors are no longer required. Whoa! [Link] |
| BlackSix All-Star Member pornography wasn't sex but fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world 12377 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Nov 5 2007 : 11:49PM Edited by - BlackSix on 11/5/2007 11:50:21 PM [Link] |
| Bernard Member usa 158 Posts 7/06 | Posted - Nov 13 2007 : 7:30PM [Link] |
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