Porn Industry May Not Decide Format War

nixkuroi writes "MSNBC Reports that the porn industry may be overstating their numbers and, as a result, may not be the decider of the next winning movie format. Even more interesting: Vivid Entertainment says that despite Sony's refusal to license Blu-ray to the adult industry, they've found a way to replicate the technology and will release Debbie Does Dallas on both formats. Film writer Jimmy Digiorgio states, in an email with MSNBC: 'In the past, porn embraced new technologies that were just gaining a foothold. DVDs are not new, and I don't think consumers perceive Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as new technologies. Instead, they see them as an evolution of an existing technology.... With Blu-ray [versus] HD-DVD, porn will go where the masses go.'"

Comments

Re:Too Much Control

[montyzooooma]

Last time this was raised I think it was agreed that Sony had said they would produce BR porn discs but that there was nothing stopping other production facilities with the appropriate equipment from producing them. The implication in the synopsis that porn companies are reverse-engineering BR is cute but inaccurate. Sony will let you make BR porn just not at their facilities.

Refusal?

[dysfunct]

Didn't Sony already claim that this is not true? As far as I understand it they have no intentions and/or means to prohibit the licensing or sub-licensing of pornography even though they themselves won't press or publish it. Details see here.

I also believe Vivid's claims that the revenue of the porn industry is grossly overestimated. Yet having worked at an adult media shop and reseller I know that even though there might not be that much profit to be made there's a still a damn high volume of discs sold. And this is the important factor in this whole discussion: there might be less market share in terms of profit but higher market share in terms of media sold.

Re:Too Much Control

[elrous0]

Read the language of the article and the denial carefully. The claim was that "Sony has pressured [emphasis mine] Blu-ray disc manufacturers not to produce any media for pornography, threatening revocation of licenses for failure to comply." So, Sony is perfectly correct in stating that they don't outright prohibit porn on Blu-ray. However, they do seem to be pressuring the manufacturing facilities not to press them, and refusing to license their own manufacturing facilities for porn (and, possibly, even threatening to revoke the licenses of manufacturers). While that's not an outright prohibition, it's a pretty clear message to the porn industry.

-Eric

Re:ugh

[Lord_Dweomer]

no way do I want to see any of these "actors" in HD, either format.

Yeah, god forbid a woman have any imperfections on her. I understand this is porn and its supposed to be fantasy where all women are perfect but come on...Honestly, if my beautiful girlfriend didn't have a few small imperfections on her I'd be a little creeped out I think. And if you don't have a girlfriend (I honestly wouldn't be surprised with this being /. and all), that kind of mindset will work against you if you try to get one. Trust me, I speak from first hand experience. Porn is great but it can and will cause you to have unrealistic expectations for women in real life.

Re:Too Much Control

[Jeff DeMaagd]

I really don't think Sony has that much control over Blu-Ray. It seems to be a very popular misconception, but it's not Sony's to control. Blu-Ray was formed by an alliance of all the Japanese electronics makers except for NEC/Toshiba.

Re:ugh

[Chris Mattern]

Should the current Monarch of England be called King Elizabeth II?

I might point out that while Elizabeth is the Queen and and not the King, she *is* the Duke of Lancaster and the Duke of Normandy (and not the Duchess) and the Lord of Mann (and not the Lady).

Chris Mattern

Re:Too Much Control

[Mongoose]

Are you serious? They already have blu-ray AV in Japan. Japan and US are in the same blu-ray region. Therefore the US already has blu-ray porn. Do you feel confused now? The same company does HDDVD and UMD movies too. I'm sure you really hate Sony, but your theories are very wrong. Sony is only one member of the Blu-Ray group, and unlike HDDVD one company can't go out and bully others off the format by decree.

Here is the place you can buy Blu-Ray porn, since you don't believe anything you read:
http://www.glayz.co.jp/glayz.html

I thought this was settled last time slashdot posted this bullshit story to begin with. AV is about profit, and people will persue profit. Just wait until more Blu-Ray presses are made and you'll be swimming in AV. Right now studios get brushed off for higher profit pressings like geek favorite movies ( early adopters ).

Get a tin foil hat if you really believe what you're saying. The porn industry in the US wants discs stamped for the same price so they make a big scandal. We got into this a while back and even found some US AV studios getting ready to press Blu-Ray content very soon. I hope you don't also think you work for the CIA and are a gameshow host.

Re:ya'll are missing the point

[Anonymous Coward]

HD porn may actually finally be the porn that's good for relationships. Once you see the "actors" in glorious HD, your girlfriend/wife suddenly starts to look a whole lot more appealing.

Now that it's okay for women to have imperfect skin, it's become simply a matter of convincing your date to allow you to shove your massive (=>9") cock down her throat and force her to hold it there until she's gagging and sobbing in order to conform to the porn industry's tacit assertion that sexual violence equals good sex.

What a culture we (and by we I mean the U.S.) have! With our porn dollars we vote for dehumanization and rape over mutual pleasure. No surprise, I suppose, given the last two presidential elections.

We are truly a fucked-up people.

-Matt

(P.S. Sex is better if everyone's enjoying it.)

Re:Are we still talking about pr0n?

[AdamWeeden]

I believe in Mexico they call that "50 pesos."