Friday, January 12, 2007 - 11:30 (GMT+99)
Adult industry hops into bed with HD DVD
Filed under: Uncategorized, Blu-Ray, DVD | by :luk |
Back in the Eighties, the adult industry was one of the deciders in the battle between Betamax and VHS. Experts say they could play the same role in the new contest between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Leading adult film company Vivid Entertainment had yet to decide. But Digital Playground takes position. T3 reports…
Next door to CES, at the much ruder Adult Entertainment Expo, the first ever, adult HD DVD title was announced by Digital Playground. Porn star, Jesse Jane reveals all in an exclusive interview with t3.co.uk.
Next week, Island Fever 3, the first of four adult HD DVD titles, will go on sale, hailing a new era in high-definition porn. Four more skin flicks - Pirates, Jack’s Teen America 3 and Island Fever 4 – will follow later in the month.
Jesse Jane and the director of all four films, Joone, were delighted to explain the decision to go with the HD DVD format.
Jesse: “Everyone loves high definition TV over here in the States and they’ll pay a premium over DVD to have it. We [Digital Playground] were the first to put out a DVD in ’93 with ‘Virtual Sex’ too and everyone went crazy for that. Then when we did Island Fever 3 with the WMV HD disc, it broke all the records for an adult movie. It sold even more than Deep Throat.” (…)
Joone: “My first thought was to go with Blu-ray, but Sony doesn’t want this kind of content on their format and their answer was no. It’s reminiscent of the Betamax versus VHS battle back in the 80s when Sony said exactly the same thing. You think they’d have learned a lesson from that.” (…)
Joon: “The adult industry took a big hit with the internet and people downloading their porn for free. HD DVD adds value and quality that the internet can’t provide. The other adult companies will follow us onto HD DVD when they can because they’ll see how much it’s doing for us.”
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on 12 Jan 2007 at 19:26 1.Dorothy Dax said …
Sony is no longer favor by many consumers. They were short-sighted when they came up with mp3 Walkman, instead they tried to force the everyone to use their ATRC. Later, Sony came up with a digital mp3 player , however, by this time public has embrace iPOD. Then there was the case of Sony’s DRM malware in CD-roms. Company didn’t learn anything from these mistakes, and it shows in their decision of putting Blu-ray into Play Station 3. Some games players are returning PS3, it is a total fiasco. Sony has been embracing unpopular technoloy, and there by making itself unpopular among public.
Many consumers suspect that Sony is trying to show that they have moral, and decency. However, their recent movies are full of scatological scene, and these are children’s movies! They can no longer be trusted. I am not a big fan of porn, and I don’t like HD-DVD, but I do hope that Sony will be on the losing side.
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