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Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD
MBCook writes "ZDNet has an interesting article about how the porn industry might end up deciding the outcome of the HD-DVD/Blu-ray debate. One side likes the higher capacity of Blu-ray, while others like the lower costs of producing HD-DVDs. Manufacturing 11,000 titles a year, the industry would have a sizeable say in the debate."
One only has to look to the Betamax to find a superior home entertainment technology that lost partially because the porn industry embraced the competitor. (actually, IIRC, Sony refused to license the beta to porn).
No, I'm bi. And for what it's worth, there's tons of gay porn out there, too - go check, and you'll see for yourself. 11000 titles a year does not equal 11000 heterosexual/lesbian titles a year (BTW, am I the only one who thinks it's funny that the stereotypical macho hates gays but likes to watch porn involving two women?)
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$29.95/mo for one month isn't bad if you're using something like Teleport Pro or Wget to download *everything* they have and promptly cancel your membership.
If you check one of the links in the Betamax Wikipedia article you linked to, you'd notice this article debunking the Betamax player superiority as a myth.
The article has several good points, although it's sometimes hard to tell what can be attributed to hindsight and what can't. Anyhow I think it's safe to say that "Betamax > VHS" is a huge oversimplification.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
Sports. (no, not me. I'm a nerd.) ;)
Shows.
Demo of -other- technology than the AV running the display, also scientific presentations. Also educational.
Security, monitoring
News/Live.
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
It accounts for about $30 million dollars in tax revenue for the San Fernando Valley.
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Sorry, you do not know many people who watch porn. A close friend of mine owns a video store (well, his parents do, but he does a lot of work in it on his free time), and another friend of mine works there. When I want to hang out with either of them, it's often times at the video store (friend #2 works the evening-night shift). I've seen guys come in and drop $50 renting porn. I've heard stores about guys coming in at opening (11 am), dropping $25, and then coming back that night and dropping $25 more. I would say the average spent per porn renter over a 6 month period of observations is about $25 in a go. What they do with that much porn, I don't know. I don't want to venture a guess. But my argument is, porn-guys (and girls) will drop some serious green-backs to fuel their habit.
(BTW, am I the only one who thinks it's funny that the stereotypical macho hates gays but likes to watch porn involving two women?)
What's even funnier is that movies with lesbian scenes (or even lesbian-only) are categorized as "straight" while it only takes two guys making a little kiss during a MMF-threesome to get it categorized as "bi".. *sigh*
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Not just video tapes. Photography, the internet, video tapes, DVDs, streaming video and digital photography ALL owe their rapid take up and comoditisation to the pornographic industry.
(I'd possibly include the easily available hard drives with massive storage as well)
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yeah, I know we all want to watch our movies at a billion lines of resolution but the only reason I see Hollywood being so gung-ho about getting a new standard out is because DVDs are now easy to copy or you can download a DVD rip off the net. Downloading 2GB used to be a feat but in day of increasing bandwidth it's no longer unreasonable. HD-DVD or Blu-Ray would require new burners, media and a rip would be 5-7x larger.
That's what sublimedirectory.com and thehun.com are for... Finding porn sites that don't exactly make spidering their images difficult:
..
#!/bin/bash
count=10
x=1
while [ $count -ne "86" ]; do
mkdir "thumbs$count"
cd "thumbs$count"
while [ $x -lt "16" ]; do
if [ $x -lt "10" ]; then
wget "http://www.my-thumbs.com/ne-$count/0$x.jpg"
else
wget "http://www.my-thumbs.com/ne-$count/$x.jpg"
fi
let "x += 1"
sleep 3
done
cd
x=1
let "count += 1"
done
I'd have to agree with the high resolution of HDTV being contrary to porn.
My 65" HDTV shows me wayyyy too much detail at times, and it's a turn off. Stretch marks, surgery scars, acne, razor burns... it's not stuff you want to see in high definition. And for some reason the directors still love their closeups.
If you're watching DVD's on a 27" or smaller television, it's not the same as a 65" HDTV. Seriously.
Listen to MP3s? Sure. Store them as MP3s for archival purposes? Of course not. But what you use and what you store for posterity's sake are not the same.
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Well, they paid me $10/hour cash and I was able to do my college schoolwork while getting paid, and program in my spare time. An investment in pr0n that paid off!
Prime example of scum:
4:00 am in the morning, customer walks in, browses movie boxes in another room. Nothing unusual, men will spend hours picking out porn. 5:30 am, I look at the camera, see the person looking behind him. Suspicious activity, no one looks around unless they are trying to be secretive.
I walk back there quietly, the man is wearing sweat pants with his hand in there, while looking at a movie box with the other hand.
I say, "Excuse me, you're going to have to leave."
His response, "What?"
I then say, "Your hand is in your PANTS. You have to leave." At the time of me saying this, his hand was still there.
He pulls it out, walks into the other room with the mags and such, goes to look at a magazine as I say, "I'm going to call the police unless you leave."
On his way out, he says to me rather angrily, "You shouldn't be looking at guys dicks anyways."
I respond, "Well, maybe you shouldn't be wacking off in the store anyways, get the f*** out."
Apparently he was rather pissed I didn't let him finish up or something.
So... tell me the last time you wacked off in a pr0n store to some boxes. Now that's scum to me.
Sounds a bit like porn-get.
English is easier said than done.
According to a former girlfriend, who worked for an independent video store, porn accounted for over 50% of their rentals. The other half was mostly niche/non-mainstream stuff which Blockbuster didn't have a good selection of -- anime, arthouse stuff, and foreign films.
Before Blockbuster opened, people would come in and get a "regular" movie or two, and maybe a porno. After Blockbuster opened, the customres would just get the porn, because they were getting the new releases at Blockbuster (and blockbuster doesn't rent porn).
It's hard for an independent to compete on new releases, when BB is getting 50+ copies of every movie [at a hefty discount] and the independent can afford maybe 5 copies [at full price].
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
Not true at all. In order of goodness:
1) puretna.com
2) torrentbits2.org
3) elitetorrents.net
4) and pleasure-torrent.com
All have lots of up to date high quality free porn movies :)
And those are just the ones I know of. Well I am just an average internet porn freak.
- PS. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R where eliminated.