sgknox.com – Thursday, January 11th, 2007:
Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow XXX-rated movies to be released on Blu-ray.
Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between the adult and tech industries – porn has a tendency to drive, and be driven, by technology. Which means HD DVD when it comes to high-def.
Quite famously in the war between Betamax and VHS the latter won especially because the adult industry preferred it. If you’ve been around long enough, you probably remember that the very early home video rental stores were primarily responsible for driving Betamax out of the market. And those stores carried almost exclusively pornographic content.
Thanks to Jayson for finding the Sony story!
Digital Playground released “Pirates” on HD-DVD last year.
The porn industry earns more money than the NFL, NBA and MLS combined.
Plus bear porn in hi-res is beautiful! You can see every hair from their pelts.
Sony being moral… *ROTFLMAO* Root kit anyone?
Blu-Ray is dead!
(Seriously, isn’t porn what got both VHS and streaming media started?)
So a person can’t buy a Blu-Ray burner and blank disks, and create whatever the hell commercial content he wants? How does Sony stop you? Do the burners come with a EULA? Do you have to sign a contract containing a morals clause in order to purchase a burner?
Oh, what the hell. One of the two formats had to go. It might as well be Sony’s.
#25 said: “How does Sony stop you?”
I think someone already said how: rootkits. And maybe, with vista, it maybe a lot easier via adding hardware disabling instructions to a rootkit.
Hi,
Well if this is true then Blue-Ray is doomed to fail as a HD movie playback format.
Perhaps they could concentrate on the data storage market where they may be the better option.
Just about every new storage format has to get the backing of the porn “industry” to become popular and accepted.
In any event dual-format players and recorders will appear (as with the various DVD formats) so it will be a moot point in 12 – 18 months.
Kind Regards
Simon
I think that Sony makes a big mistake again. Not the first in the last time, and surely not the last!