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Michael Hoffman (Blog) - January 17, 2006 1:49 AM

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Digital Playground has recently announced its decision to go with the Blu-ray Disc format over HD-DVD

As the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD continues to heat up, adult film company Digital Playground has announced that it will release new products on Blu-ray Disc instead of HD-DVD. The company claims that it went with Blu-ray is because of the larger storage capacity with Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. Digital Playground is also banking on the success of the the Sony PlayStation 3 game console; all units will ship with Blu-ray built in, which should lead to more people having access to a player that plays the Blu-ray format.

Pornography has always been quick to adopt new media. The printing press, photography and Internet all owe a large portion of their success to the lucrative business of adult content. With a major adult content producer siding with one of the media camps already, the format wars are only going to continue to get uglier and uglier.

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It's official...

By killerroach on 1/17/2006 4:15:18 AM , Rating: 2

...the content war is over. *laughs*

But seriously, it's really up in the air. Keep in mind that in the last format war, porn wound up on the losing side (the adult film industry preferred Betamax, as they didn't need the tape length that VHS offered, but liked the higher quality of Betamax).

RE: It's official...

By ronster on 1/17/2006 5:02:11 AM , Rating: 2

I thought the adult movie industry was what actually swung VHS over Betamax?

I must admit I find this obsession over the PS3 being somehow important to Bluray winning the format war as curious. How many people use a console as their primary household DVD player currently anyway for instance? How many households don't own a console of any description?

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RE: It's official...

By Furen on 1/17/2006 5:17:09 AM , Rating: 2

I knew a lot of people who used their PS2 as their primary DVD player back when it came out. DVD players were a bit expensive and I think this really helped the DVD's ramp up before prices came down on players. The problem is that there really be much of a benefit from going to the HD formats unless you have an HD TV set (which probably less than 5% of Americans do). DVD, on the other hand, gave people a noticeable visual benefit without any further requirements. It also introduced chapters, extras, menus, subtitles, different soundtracks, and did away with the rewinding.

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RE: It's official...

By WileECoyote on 1/17/2006 10:54:18 AM , Rating: 2

I don't think the PS2 made the DVD successful. In late 2000 when the PS2 came out a DVD player could be had for less than $200. The PS2 cost $299 plus I think you had to buy the remote, not to mention a game and extra controller if you actually wanted to use it as a gaming console.

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RE: It's official...

By killerroach on 1/17/2006 12:27:47 PM , Rating: 2

Keep in mind in Japan the best selling software for the PS2 for a long time wasn't a game... it was the DVD of The Matrix. It may not have swung the DVD market in the States, but worldwide it certainly did.

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RE: It's official...

By KashGarinn on 1/17/2006 5:44:11 AM , Rating: 3

Yeah, VHS to dvd is a much greater leap than dvd to HDTV.. but I like the crispness of HDTV, but will look forward to when the resolution doubles from 1080p to 2160 at least.

I support HD-DVD because it's cheaper and more home-entertainment friendly.

I don't like blu-ray because I feel that if I support bluray, that I'm in some way supporting their obnoxious business practices, and time and time again they've shown with their proprietary standards, with their licence agreements, and the rootkit problem that they have a blatant disregard to the buying consumer.

Sony doesn't care about the user, it's been shown again and again, and if you support bluray, you are giving even more power to sony for the future of HDTV, and do you really want that?

K.

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Hours

By Sunbird on 1/17/2006 3:59:06 AM , Rating: 2

Hours and hours of high definition, hardcore porn brought to a HDTV near you, wonder if they will have lots of stringent DRM?

RE: Hours

By BladeVenom on 1/17/2006 4:21:46 AM , Rating: 3

Digital Sin might use copy protection, but most porn companies don't, so I would guess it will stay that way even with a switch to a high definition. I'm guessing licensing costs for copy protection is the reason. As for regional coding, why keep people in other countries from buying your movies? That would just be stupid. Actually that makes porn companies better than the major movie studios. They just screw the actresses, not the consumers.

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RE: Hours

By Xenoterranos on 1/17/2006 7:55:57 AM , Rating: 2

Now that Japan and the US share the same region, we can all enjoy easier access to soiled panty tentacle pr0n! yay!

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RE: Hours

By gsellis on 1/17/2006 10:12:10 AM , Rating: 2

Actually, yuck. HD makes skin problems, poor lighting, and badly shot video worse. Not sure that you would want to see it.

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Blah to Bloooo Rey ;><

By punkboi on 1/17/2006 9:33:36 AM , Rating: 4

I agree about all the crappy business practices involved with Blue Ray....I especially think the huge leap in storage from DVD 4.7gb to 30gb+ is way more than sufficient. From all Ive read it sounds as though HD-DVD is going to be far far far more stable, less prone to errors and bad burns, much more of a value and will offer the exact same "quality" per movie than what Blooo Rake can offer. Bleh....it will mainly be the people who knows nothing about technology that will decide the fate of our new standard. Lets just hope we dont get stuck having to pay a buck a gig for these discs ^^;; Cheers for HD-DVD and booo boooo Bloooooo Rape *cry*

By hans007 on 1/17/2006 4:10:41 PM , Rating: 2

well anandtech / daily tech or whatever this is now, totally made a misleading title.

adult content is not siding with blue ray. like one adult content producer is.

tons of adult content is sold online anyway completely unencrypted. it is the same thing bill gates is saying by the time most homes have the tvs and players for these new discs we will be buying and downloading everything onto our media centers anyway.

and probably less than 1% of america has an HDTV WITH HDCP encryption.

i actually have a projection tv that had it. unfortunately it is an older non DLP model with 480p resolution only. so i could play blue ray movies at DVD quality. seriously a lot of NEW plasmas do not have hdcp.

RE: 1

By KashGarinn on 1/18/2006 4:27:39 AM , Rating: 2

Yeah, I hope that's true that we'll be downloading stuff easily, but there'll still be a benefit from going from 4.7Gb to 30Gb+ on a disc.

However, I've heard the rumor about the adult industry having a decisive impact on the betamax Vs VHS myself, and I have to wonder whether it was the fact that VHS was cheaper, or that VHS had bigger capacity than betamax..

And yes, one adult company supporting bluray does not mean the whole film industry is supporting it, that's just a stupid headline.

K.

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HD for porn?

By Tennoh on 1/17/2006 10:05:12 AM , Rating: 3

I really wonder about porn on HD. I have a feeling a lot of the ladies in porn do not look real good when HD clarity is brought forth with Blu-ray. They're going to scare away more customers. :)

Ha Ha

By sxr7171 on 1/17/2006 11:22:21 AM , Rating: 1

It's all over now. Adult industry support + PS3. It's all over for HD-DVD.

RE: Ha Ha

By tenguman on 1/17/2006 11:44:36 AM , Rating: 2

I don't believe this gives Blu-Ray an advantage at all considering that Microsoft and Intel are HD DVD backers. Those two power-house companies alone give HD DVD strong support especially with both companies jumping into the home entertainment market with some outstanding new products.

Also, porn is porn whether its on DVD, VHS, HD DVD, Blu-Ray. I would be willing to bet that a mojority of people that have porn, they download from bittorrent/emule/etc. onto their 500GB harddrives to view on their 17" monitors in 1024x768, not on their HDTVs in 1080p for about 2 minutes.

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Awsome

By beemercer on 2/10/2006 8:08:28 PM , Rating: 3

Awsome, Im gonna have hours and hours of HD porn to watch, say hello to carpal tunnel.

Not really

By gsellis on 1/17/2006 10:10:44 AM , Rating: 2

I just mentioned this to a co-worker. His observation is that there is not other industry that will change its media preference faster than the adult film industry. If flashcards got more attention tomorrow, they would be shipping the following day. So, no, no winner yet and this does not give them a leg up.