From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I somewhat agree with you. The porn industry adjusted to the popular format
- VHS. It was one of many factors in the VHS win. I also doubt they'll be
instrumental in selecting which hi-def format wins as most will get their
porn via the net. As to hi-def I'm hoping both formats fail and teach the
warring camps an expensive lesson


http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/02/pornhd/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
But not everyone believes the format war will be determined by the porn
industry. Steve Duplessie, founder of research firm Enterprise Strategy
Group, in Milford, Mass., and a Computerworld columnist, said the porn
industry's influence over the fate of VHS and the upcoming high-def DVD
formats is overstated. Duplessie said VHS ultimately won over Betamax
because Betamax was a proprietary format owned by Sony, while VHS was more
open.
"I love the whole pornography concept simply because porn is still the
number one money-making use of the Internet. But I don't believe the porn
industry will drive the format. Like any other industry, it will supply
what the consumer wants," he said.


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "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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