From: Randy 

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> 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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Forbes just did a little piece on the old bromide about how much money is
really generated by the porn industry-they state is isn't in the billions,
but maybe a few hundred million-tops.

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