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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.'"
one man's pron is another man's life's blood.
In January 11th's discusion on Adult Film Industry Chooses HD-DVD
I had posted a comment entitled Sure... lets just trust what the porn guys say predicting ALL of this early in the thread. It was not well moderated mostly I believe because at the time most Slashdotters wanted to HATE SONY so much they wanted to believe SONY would be insane enough to block all Porn on Blu-Ray.
With Disney a strong Blu-Ray backer they just didn't want to be seen as a strong porn advocate. All this crap about SONY forbidding Porn was just the Porn industry trying to swing the format war for monetary reasons. I'm surprised this article took so long to surface on Slashdot as the refutation of the no-porn-claims came within a day or two of the discussion mentioned.
Hmmmm, are I-told-you-sos get moderated +5 Insightful or -5 Troll?
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