Porn Could Be the Key to Next-Generation DVD War

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Here is an April 6 article on how porn is going to win the format war. I think this porn issue and twisting facts around is coming from both the porn industry and people that are pro HD-DVD. There are some people that will decide to not purchase porn on moral grounds. Regardless to where one stands morally on the porn issue the porn industry can have an effect on the format war. There are video rental stores that 25%-30% of the store incomes come from renting porn on DVD. So I would say perhaps if porn was exclusive in one format that maybe 30% of people would one day buy into the format that had porn.
Sony has the right to make their own corporate decisions to not be involved in porn. If the porn industry would wait a few months there will be more third party BLU-RAY replicators that will be willing to press their movie titles on BLU-RAY.

The following quote from the article I totally disagree with. They are claiming that immediately a few million people are going to purchase HD-DVD players if porn is on HD-DVD format exclusively. Perhaps as high as 30% of the population over a few years might choose HD-DVD instead of BLU-RAY if porn was exclusive but they are not going to sale millions of players in the next few months if a dozen HD-DVD porn discs were to come out. It would take some time to sale the players.

"If the porn industry wanted to break the logjam of HD-DVD and Blu-ray, it could," McQuivey said. "If they said 'We are going to go with HD-DVD' you would see a few million homes immediately go out and buy HD-DVD players. They have that power."

For people that want porn in HDTV most likely porn will be on both HD-DVD and BLU-RAY formats. If the HD-DVD camp was to secure exclusive porn studios then maybe 30% of the population that was going to purchase BLU-RAY might purchase HD-DVD instead. I still think Disney, Fox, and Sony Pictures being exclusive to BLU-RAY will be more important in deciding the format war.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2111981,00.asp?kc=EWSTREMNL040607EOAD