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Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash

Posted by Soulskill on from the stiff-competition-for-market-penetration dept.

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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  1. Quite an extrapolation by ergo98 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The whole porn thing is so incredibly boring, and casts a pall over technology. No, Blu-ray didn't win because of porn. Nor did VHS win because of porn. No is Flash going to die because of porn.

    But really the cutest is when someone desperate for attention, hoping onto the dogpile, becomes an industry. Especially when it's encrusted with caveats ("if HTML5 was supported by all browsers, they all supported the same codecs, they all..."). Boring.

  2. Re:never gonna work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually sony sucks balls and nobody ever wants to be locked in to their bullshit.

    Lets face it, the only reason they got so huge was a little thing that was like an ipod, the walkman.

    They tried to parlay that market position to thug out their own video format and it failed against an open standard.

    That and longer playing time, faster rewinding and fast-forwarding, and a less-complex, lower-cost tape transport mechanism.