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Porn Industry May Not Decide Format War

Posted by Zonk on from the assumptions-about-media dept.

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.'"

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  1. Refusal? by dysfunct · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.

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  2. Re:Too Much Control by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Informative
    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

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  3. Re:Too Much Control by Mongoose · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.