dubyateeeff
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I really dont believe the porn industry will decide the winner between BR and HD, because it is very different from the Betamax/VHS situation. I will here give reasons as to why the porn industry will have little effect on the winner.
AFAIK: They sided with VHS and since there were no other alternative people picked VHS. Now, if you want porn you can stick with your old DVD player. You dont have to buy a HD medium just to see porn. You dont have to shell out lots of cash and on top of that buy a new TV-set (and probably new amplifiers since the sound is encrypted, right?).
Besides there are other issues as well, today the porn industry is bigger than ever, with more diversity. A few years ago (2003, though it is hard to generalise), and probably now too, movies were released on VHS before they were released on DVD (the point is there are porn in VHS format). That is one "proof" that porn customers arent on the bleeding edge of technology.
VHS and the Internet offered something drasticly new, BR/HD dont offer that.
All of those customers wont change format quickly. This isnt a huge userbase just waiting for a flip of a switch and with such a diversity who knows which format will be supported, maybe both by some companies and some will wait?
Now with more companies there a lot of movies being made, the bulk of these movies are cheap movies. The exception are those that make feature movies. They spend a lot of money on their movies and a lot of time in post production. There are even fewer movies that use the interactive features. Therefore I believe that the porn companies that will first move to HD/BR is those that do feature movies (there already are HD movies in WM-HD format), while the majority of the porn industry wont invest in HD-gear (cameras etc) at first, when they dont even get directores and camera men with previous knowledge of how to use a camera.
With all of these stated reasons I dont think they will have a huge impact.
Oh, one more thing, (something along these lines were stated) one CEO or some such important guy said while they started filming in HD, they are waiting to release the movies in HD or would re-release them on a HD medium later on. what they were doing now was releasing them in WM-HD format. I believe it was the CEO of Private who said this.
AFAIK: They sided with VHS and since there were no other alternative people picked VHS. Now, if you want porn you can stick with your old DVD player. You dont have to buy a HD medium just to see porn. You dont have to shell out lots of cash and on top of that buy a new TV-set (and probably new amplifiers since the sound is encrypted, right?).
Besides there are other issues as well, today the porn industry is bigger than ever, with more diversity. A few years ago (2003, though it is hard to generalise), and probably now too, movies were released on VHS before they were released on DVD (the point is there are porn in VHS format). That is one "proof" that porn customers arent on the bleeding edge of technology.
VHS and the Internet offered something drasticly new, BR/HD dont offer that.
All of those customers wont change format quickly. This isnt a huge userbase just waiting for a flip of a switch and with such a diversity who knows which format will be supported, maybe both by some companies and some will wait?
Now with more companies there a lot of movies being made, the bulk of these movies are cheap movies. The exception are those that make feature movies. They spend a lot of money on their movies and a lot of time in post production. There are even fewer movies that use the interactive features. Therefore I believe that the porn companies that will first move to HD/BR is those that do feature movies (there already are HD movies in WM-HD format), while the majority of the porn industry wont invest in HD-gear (cameras etc) at first, when they dont even get directores and camera men with previous knowledge of how to use a camera.
With all of these stated reasons I dont think they will have a huge impact.
Oh, one more thing, (something along these lines were stated) one CEO or some such important guy said while they started filming in HD, they are waiting to release the movies in HD or would re-release them on a HD medium later on. what they were doing now was releasing them in WM-HD format. I believe it was the CEO of Private who said this.
