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Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash
An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interesting new angle to the ongoing Flash-HTML5 debate. Digital Playground, one of the major adult film studios, said it would drop Flash today if all browsers were HTML5-ready (*cough*, IE8, *cough*). The company's founder said, 'Flash brings everything to a crawl and has an impact on battery life. With HTML5, there is no reason to show our content in Flash.' Digital Playground also indicated that it does not expect 3-D to gain mass acceptance any time soon."
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untill you can get all workplaces to upgrade their browsers, the porn industry is never gonna drop flash
So Flash really is almost dead and 3D really is a just gimmick. Now this doesn't seem like such a shitty Monday.
Are they dropping their pants, or flashing their boobies?
Or both?
*grin*
What the batteries are for...?
For tits, yeah, that'd be great. But there are often also dicks.
It's not the boobs we're worried about...
Wise men say, "Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."
Why would 3D gain faster acceptance? Who wouldn't want tits to basically jump out of your screen and nearly hit you in the face?
I'm already going blind. I don't need a migraine to go with it.
That the iPad would revolutionize online porn as we know it.
Also, it wipes clean with a damp cloth.
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As someone who has actually seen a 3-d porn movie (in the theater, no less), let me assure that 3-d "money shots" are REALLY NOT something you want to experience.
the two minutes of battery life that my N900 can run flash for have so far proven sufficient.
Who cares about battery life? Porn is only watched in increments of 5-10 minutes anyway.
agreed... get firefox to use h264 via plugin, problem solved. Firefox ppl love plugins.
You will be able to install a third party theora codec for ie. You will presumably be able to get a firefox plugin for h.264. Chrome supports both. Opera users can install a different browser.
The iPad is a HORRIBLE porn viewing device. There's no easy way to set it down to view hands-free and if you're holding it... well... let's just say it's slippery enough as it is without any fluids involved.
Both IE and Firefox are pulling asshole arrogant moves by not making their HTML5 video playback call a library where codecs can be added. In both cases it is an attempt to promote their codec of choice by making alternatives impossible.
Although we are used to Microsoft doing this crap, it is annoying to see the supposedly "open" Firefox do it too.
Sure, but then all your porn is in 30-second out takes, which leaves little room for clever dialog, plot development, character development, or artistic camera work!
Wait... am I the only one that actually watches these movies all the way to the end?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
You crazy? Some people already got pregnant because of 3D porn! Won't you think of the children?! So much for abstinence...
Flash could disappear in a couple of months with a couple of browser rollouts.
And the simple task of converting all the current Flash developers to HTML5.
I know! It all sounds so simple, doesn't it? That's the beauty of the whole idea: All we need to do is get the decade or so worth of Flash game websites out there (Armor Games, NewGrounds, Kongregate, etc) and Flash-based cartoons to just suddenly convert their entire libraries to another language, architecture, set of art tools, set of resources, and set of formats. And for the lazy ones, we can easily run them through a JS Flash emulator at roughly 5% of the speed and zero hardware acceleration, because seriously, who needs it to run that fast? Should be all done in a couple hours, globally, once I say so, starting......... now! Go!