From: "Mark" 

"Quite famously in the war between Betamax and VHS the latter won
especially because the adult industry preferred it."

That's a swimming pool full of bullshit!

"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."

That's an ocean full of bullshit! I lived then, my local video rental
stores had a very small selection of Porn in the backroom; not front and
center by any stretch of a "John Holmes" imagination.

Rather, it was the Beta limitation to 1 hour of recording time vs. 2 hours
on VHS that did Beta in. This is indisputable.


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:45a713a2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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