January 15th, 2007

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The Porn Industry Settles HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Battle

As you may know, the DVD industry has been struggling with version 2.0 of Beta vs. VHS. This time around–having learned nothing, apparently, from the debacle of the eighties–they’re debating the merits of two high-definition DVD standards: HD DVD and Blu-ray.

As The Movie Blog and The Guardian report, a crucial blow has been struck against Blu-ray’s cause:

Someone from Tom’s Hardware went round the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas last week. He “did a quick straw poll on, the virtues of HD DVD versus Blu-ray, and the answer from a dozen companies, big and small, including Pink Visual and Bangbros editor-in-chief, is going into a single direction: HD DVD is the preferred format. Period.”

Whatever you think about the pornography industry, they’ve been on the bleeding edge of innovation since Nicéphore Niépce snapped (well, the exposure was somewhere between 8 and 20 hours) the first permanent photo back in 1827. As soon as they got that exposure time down to something manageable, I’m sure he was thinking “hang on, I could take photos of naked people and sell them”.

Comments: 9 Responses so far

Michael Kwan
January 15th, 2007
5:57 pm

This isn’t wholly the porn industry’s decision. Quite the contrary. I heard that Sony refuses to let porn producers record and sell their wares on Blu Ray, so they had no choice but to turn to HD DVD if they wanted hi def, and well, pornophiles want hi def.

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Michael Markman
January 15th, 2007
7:46 pm

It goes further back than than 1827. Porn has driven adoption of every new medium since the Greek vase.

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Griff
January 16th, 2007
8:08 am

They’ve actually come out with a dual-tech dvd player that will play both blu-ray and HD DVD discs…but one has to win out eventually!

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Bobb
February 12th, 2007
6:50 am

Funny that Sony would turn back the porn industry as it could prove out to decide who will wil the HD format battle…

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HD Porn
August 4th, 2007
8:18 am

I have an HD DVD player, and I will probably end up buying some porn for it in HD, but I have never purchased a DVD for porn either, so not sure… I watch it online, so you can believe that I have invested some $$$ into the WMVHD format.
Either way, HD Porn is the best. :)

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HD Porn
August 12th, 2007
9:38 pm

Actually, I recently heard that the US porn producers have gone with the HD-DVD format while Sony is being adopted by the Japanese porn industry.

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December 25th, 2007
9:45 pm

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First Life Fan
December 31st, 2007
8:52 am

Here’s another quick survey in the adult retail market:
Go to adultdvdempire.com (AVN’s 4-year winner for website retail sales) and search for HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray titles.

Results:
HD-DVD 41
Blu-Ray 9

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Hi Def Porn
January 8th, 2008
9:41 am

The porn industry pioneered many tech media developments but they’re not as innovative as they once were.

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