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Adult Film Industry Moving To HD DVD
profet writes "One of the heavyweights in the war between BlueRay and HD DVD has chosen its format. Various members of the adult film industry have decided on HD-DVD. The article says the reasons seem to be based primarily on cost of manufacturing. History has shown that the porn industry can be a driving factor for technology, as it was in deciding for the VHS format over BetaMax." Heise reports that US BlueRay press plants are refusing the adult industry's business (in German).
Too much detail can be a bad thing ... unless you're into that sort of thing.
So in other words, Blu-ray is...erm Fucked.
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Whew! Thanks for this news, Slashdot! Now I can finally feel confident buying an HD-DVD player!
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
1.Create rootkit
2.Create new HD Disc spec
3.Shoot feet
4.??????
5.Profit
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They're disqs.
KFG
I've got Blu-Balls!
Must. Resist. Urge to comment.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
HD-DVD DVDA! I can hardly wait.
(Anyone who doesn't know the reference should watch this)
It's jergens, kleenex and HD-DVD over Neutrogena, an old sweat sock and blu-ray by a landslide.
Please die now, we need the air you're wasting.
Air?!? Who cares about the air, you take his air, I have dibs on the fresh water.
So does this mean that the PS3 is a kiddy system because it won't actually have any "adult media" while the XBOX360 can?
porn can be put onto Sony PCs.
Film at 11.
Work Safe Porn
As a Republican I would like to publicly state my strong opposition to HD-DVD.
If we let HD-DVD win, we let the pornographers win.
DVD porn already makes women look substantially worse. Google around, I'm sure you can find an adult film company talking about it. Flaws that you wouldn't even see on VHS are going to look like another orifice in HD.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I'll be the first to say it...
"What a load..."
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
"She's there, she's naked, presumably she wants to fuck you"
You must be new here.
Why else do you think pr0n technology makes headlines around here?
"Hey, you got yourself those glued HD-DVD+BlueRay discs from Warner! What's this then? Jurassic Poke?? Forrest Gimp?"
"Umm..."
"Dude. This is not glue on your discs."
My other SIG is a Sauer.
Isn't that HD-DVDA?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I'm sorry, but I must disagree. Based on your example of two possibilities, Blu-Ray will win.
Because there is no known universe where the average consumer makes an apology for being a dumbass.
My understanding is that if Sony were a person, they'd be diagnosed with severe multiple-personality disorder.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Then you rebrand it as "Hentai"
No sig for you!!
I think it depends on whether you are talking about budgets or returns on investments.
People will tolerate more crap in porn than they will in a movie, and that's not including the actual crap.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
What I like about watching sports in HD vs SD:
1. I can actually read the coach's clipboard (especially the ones that print it instead of writing it on a whiteboard).
2. The crowd looks like real people instead of a blur. You can see the thrill of victory and agony of defeat. Entertaining, really.
3. And probably most important....you can see the cheerleaders in more shots.
Layne
I'm not sure whether HD-DVD discs have a scratchproof layer out of the box, but the discs containing porn will gradually acquire a thin veneer of transparent goo that should provide some protection.
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
i think i saw that porno once. thanks for making me relive the horror, asshole.
oh god, the things they did with that 6 foot sub...
think about the "beer goggles" effect, and how a lot of porn stars look better with a bit of the blurriness of DVD versus what you'd get with HD-DVD. do you really want to see the zit on their ass, isn't that going to be just a distraction?
the difference between football and porn in this respect is that in order to see all the football action the camera is tens of yards away from the players on the field so any increase in definition to better see them is helpful. in porn (where the camera is quite often within inches of the people being filmed) having extra detail just means you're going to see stuff you probably don't want to like pores and zits and the like. the only possible gain would be that they could zoom out a bit and keep the same detail, so you can see more of the scene. but unless you're watching a group scene, they're usually able to show the whole scene and get enough detail as-is
I've made my choice...
Actually, the Internet was a factor back then, too. It's just that at that point all the boobies looked like this: (.)(.)
You do realize that you just posed this question to Slashdot members, right?
IAALS.
A girl, on Slashdot, who talks about watching porn.........
Somebody's "fans" list is about to get much longer.
(Cue jokes about the use of the word longer. )
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