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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."
In the end, porn really is what drives technology forward. You can believe that when we have fully tactile 3d VR, we'll have it because the porn industry invented it.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Please remember why video tapes became so popular. Porn. People wanted to be able to watch other people do their thing in the privacy of their own homes.
;)). Some of those porn sites are shady when you pay to get the whole thing and some are just outrageously expensive ($29.95/mo? Give me a break).
While porn is rampant on the Internet the movie side of it all (outside of empornium.us) is rather lame and expensive.
DVDs are available for a little money and you get quite a bit of longevity out of them (watching not necessarily anything related
Interestingly enough, porn is also one of those areas that does a better job of exploiting the potentials of a given technology. Where else do you see the ability for multiple camera angles within a film other than in a technology demo?
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I've been saying this for a long time. The porn industry is driving technology.
Tip to moderators: It isn't +1 Insightful if everybody has been saying that for a long time.
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