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Porn in Your Pocket
cmaster383 writes "Wired is running a story about the use of a PSP for distribution of Porn. 'Two Japanese publishers of adult DVD video have announced plans to release a selection of their top titles on Sony's Universal Media Disc, or UMD, format, which is currently supported exclusively by the PSP, next month. These aren't shady gray-market items: The eight video discs will be officially licensed by Sony and carry the PSP logo on the package.'"
It's already possible to watch porn on a GBA using that SD-card media adapter that's for sale in Japan. The GBA is not region-locked so that adapater would work in the U.S. too.
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the psp can store your own videos on it without anything extra other than enough space. and thats out of the box, not requiring some obscure piece of hardware from half a world away.
the point is that now they have dvd quality discs; no more rooting around downloading crappy quality crap just to reencode it to an even more crappy quality media to play it on some crappy handheld screen. the fact that the media is porn just makes it more taboo since most people associate the ps with video games, and thereby a child's toy. sony stated quite flatly that their latest incarnations of hardware are not simply for video games or for the kiddie age demographics. they are building media centers. so they want people to be able to show off their equipment. porn is just their way of marketing to everyone. you can watch whatever youre into: from anime to summer hits to porn. they got something for everyone. as much as we sweep it under the rug, porn is a serious industry and lots of money could stand to be made from it, and could sway more and more people into the sony camp. bottomline, thats all they care about in the end.
Sony is a Japanese company. Japanese businessmen are notorious for reading pornographic manga on the commute to and from work. Even if there's not great demand for "porn on the go" in the USA (and maybe there is), I think this will be pretty popular in Japan.
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