Porn Could Be the Key to Next-Generation DVD War

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Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

I just spent some time researching HD-DVD and BLU-RAY porn titles. Currently HD-DVD has more titles. Digital Playground and Wicked Pictures are exclusive to HD-DVD format. Vivid is format neutral releasing on both HD-DVD and BLU-RAY.

We need to put this in perspective.

When VHS was adopted by the porn industry and helped kill beta, that was at a time when porn was unavailable to the average consumer, who apparently had a huge hunger for this type of content.

Now, we have a totally different situation. The industry is not trying to break into home video for the first time. Porn fans have stacks of VHS, DVDs, CD-Rs full of XXX content. They are not sitting around waiting for porn studios to decide whether they will go high def. The average Joe doesn't even care about hi def yet.

HD-DVD porn provides no advantages for the average porn fan and I'm confident that any survey would prove me right. Go to the usenet forums or adult dvd forums and ask who would buy HD-DVDs. I doubt you'd find more than 1% who are interested.