Source : Moneycontrol.com
One thing is certain; pornography has helped drive the early adoption of many technologies, from the printing press to the (Beta-stomping) VHS videocassette, the Internet and the DVD.
The porn industry is now the first industry to use HD-DVD. The added appeal of high-definition, is that it "puts you in the room" with the performers. However, that could be a drawback, too. Even after makeup artists have done their thing, some truly glamorous Hollywood celebrities have been known to appear painfully imperfect.
In Japan, GLAY'z, a porn company, has released an adult film on HD-DVD called Slave Room. The movie includes both an HD-DVD and standard DVD version due to HD-DVD's small penetration rate thus far. There is another adult HD-DVD that is already out there by the name of Pirates. It's some sort of epic production with lots of pirate-action.
The high-definition DVD format received a boost recently, when three adult film production companies - Wicked Pictures, Digital Playground and High Def Home Entertainment - announced that their first high-definition porn titles will be in HD DVD only. Another firm, Vivid Entertainment, said one of its titles would be available in both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats.
The Blu-ray camp reiterated the overwhelming support of electronics companies and Hollywood studios for the format, with seven out of the eight movie "majors" planning to release about 300 new titles in Blu-ray this year. Although the format was late to market, disc sales surpassed that of its rival in the second week of December – due to the arrival of the high-def, Blu-ray game and movie disc playing PlayStation 3.
While still supported by just three of the big studios (and only one, Universal, exclusively), the HD DVD camp cited high "attach rates" of discs to its players, suggesting that customers love the system. Also fueling the fire, HD DVD will introduce a higher-capacity, three-layer, 51 GB disc to compete with Blu-ray's 50 GB two-layer disc. That apart, Chinese and Taiwanese hardware makers could soon push down the cost of a standalone HD DVD disc spinner.
Several porn executives have said recently that they are releasing their films on HD-DVD because Sony is preventing them from making copies on Blu-ray. HD-DVD and Blu-ray are rivals competing for the new high-def disc market.
Sony has said that the company "does not replicate adult titles" and has "never done it." In the past, the company refused to duplicate X-rated videos in either its Betamax tape format or on UMDs (universal media discs) for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) game system. However, Sony has reacted to media reports and indicated that it was not trying to stop adult studios from releasing their titles on Blu-ray HDTV DVDs
One thing is certain; pornography has helped drive the early adoption of many technologies, from the printing press to the (Beta-stomping) VHS videocassette, the Internet and the DVD.
The porn industry is now the first industry to use HD-DVD. The added appeal of high-definition, is that it "puts you in the room" with the performers. However, that could be a drawback, too. Even after makeup artists have done their thing, some truly glamorous Hollywood celebrities have been known to appear painfully imperfect.
In Japan, GLAY'z, a porn company, has released an adult film on HD-DVD called Slave Room. The movie includes both an HD-DVD and standard DVD version due to HD-DVD's small penetration rate thus far. There is another adult HD-DVD that is already out there by the name of Pirates. It's some sort of epic production with lots of pirate-action.
The high-definition DVD format received a boost recently, when three adult film production companies - Wicked Pictures, Digital Playground and High Def Home Entertainment - announced that their first high-definition porn titles will be in HD DVD only. Another firm, Vivid Entertainment, said one of its titles would be available in both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats.
The Blu-ray camp reiterated the overwhelming support of electronics companies and Hollywood studios for the format, with seven out of the eight movie "majors" planning to release about 300 new titles in Blu-ray this year. Although the format was late to market, disc sales surpassed that of its rival in the second week of December – due to the arrival of the high-def, Blu-ray game and movie disc playing PlayStation 3.
While still supported by just three of the big studios (and only one, Universal, exclusively), the HD DVD camp cited high "attach rates" of discs to its players, suggesting that customers love the system. Also fueling the fire, HD DVD will introduce a higher-capacity, three-layer, 51 GB disc to compete with Blu-ray's 50 GB two-layer disc. That apart, Chinese and Taiwanese hardware makers could soon push down the cost of a standalone HD DVD disc spinner.
Several porn executives have said recently that they are releasing their films on HD-DVD because Sony is preventing them from making copies on Blu-ray. HD-DVD and Blu-ray are rivals competing for the new high-def disc market.
Sony has said that the company "does not replicate adult titles" and has "never done it." In the past, the company refused to duplicate X-rated videos in either its Betamax tape format or on UMDs (universal media discs) for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) game system. However, Sony has reacted to media reports and indicated that it was not trying to stop adult studios from releasing their titles on Blu-ray HDTV DVDs
