From: "Rich Gauszka" 

The war is over 

http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/

Las Vegas (NV) - 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.

Putting myself through the arduous trek through the floor of the adult expo
I 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.

One of the big problems they have with Blu-ray is its expense, followed by
its market share. "Blu-ray has superior quality, yes," said a
spokesperson for porn studio Bangbros, "but HD DVD is easier to
produce, cheaper to produce and there are more HD DVD players in homes than
there are Blu-ray players, for example in the Xbox 360."

Pink Visual heavily complained about the fact that Blu-ray discs cannot be
replicated and a range of other studios, who did not want to be mentioned
by name indicated that the cost of going with Blu-ray cancels the
technology as a possible HD solution for this industry. "Only bigger
studios can afford Blu-ray, and even then it's not economical," we
were told.

It would seem that either Blu-ray has to do some catching up very quickly.
But we got the strange feeling that HD DVD has won the format war already,
at least in the porn industry.

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