From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I can see the new ads - Xbox 360 made for porn 

The one weird thing Microsoft did for it's add on HD player is still not
provide an HDMI 1080p solution unless you use the VGA add-on

FWIW around here ( Detroit ) while the Wii is still very hard to find Sony
PS3s are starting to gather some dust on the shelves.



"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>> 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."
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> That sounds like the best argument for HD DVD than the fallacious porn
> industry only one, it's why the porn industry is choosing it...
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> This is *exactly* the same as beta vs vhs -- the quality was better with
> beta, the players and tapes are cheaper to make for VHS.
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> Sony ought to have learn their lesson with beta. 
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> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>> The war is over 
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>> http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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."
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>> 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.
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>> 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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