Blu Tide Continues to Turn: Porn Studios Ready to Abandon HD-DVD?

[nightflier]

Wooch,

I thought that this wasn't the porn industry's choice. Wasn't it Sony that played the prude card and said no smut on our disks? I know there are loopholes, but if Sony holds to that line, then porn may be without a hi def home - viagra for the proponents of downloading, if you ask me.

And I know, it's been said, but I just don't see people wanting their smut in hi-def. I'm guessing that most porn is "consumed" by single people who aren't really about enjoying it on a big screen with an audience. This is really one type on content that lends itself ideally to a digital, compressed, small-screen medium and not hi-def.

Maybe it would be in the BR consortium's interest to relax it's conservative stance and allow porn on it's disks, just to stem the tide to the online alternative....

[Woochifer]

I thought that this wasn't the porn industry's choice. Wasn't it Sony that played the prude card and said no smut on our disks? I know there are loopholes, but if Sony holds to that line, then porn may be without a hi def home - viagra for the proponents of downloading, if you ask me.

All that Sony said was that they would not accept any adults only jobs at their Blu-ray replicating facilities, which is nothing more than an extension of a long-standing policy that they have had in place for their DVD replicating lines. Sony's not the only Blu-ray replicator out there, and Sony exercises no control over what duplicating jobs the other Blu-ray replicators take. Apparently, plenty of HD porn titles have already rolled out on Blu-ray, so there's no shortage of takers out there.

How this got twisted into a "no porn on Blu-ray; porn on HD-DVD will win the format war just like VHS beat Betamax because of porn" story is just another example of how facts get bent when viewed through fanboi lenses.

And I know, it's been said, but I just don't see people wanting their smut in hi-def. I'm guessing that most porn is "consumed" by single people who aren't really about enjoying it on a big screen with an audience. This is really one type on content that lends itself ideally to a digital, compressed, small-screen medium and not hi-def.

Maybe it would be in the BR consortium's interest to relax it's conservative stance and allow porn on it's disks, just to stem the tide to the online alternative....

Nothing to do with a conservative stances, porn on Blu-ray is already out there and apparently outselling the HD-DVD versions. Whether or not people want to actually see porn in HD is another story altogether.