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10-11-2006, 21:08
I was searching for a list of available titles/coming, and found nothing satisfactory. However I did come across an article about porn being on hd-dvd only. I realise it won't have a big say on what wins, but if things are extremely tight, it could land the telling blow!
I’m the HD project manager for the largest US adult catalog and think “adult” could influence the format battle.
There will be several bigger budget HD DVD XXX titles out before the end of the year, probably as early as next month, from at least 2 studios and probably more.
The major adult companies have been shooting in HD for a couple years. The problem right now is mastering costs are too expensive when average adult titles sell only 2-5,000 units. This year, HD will be for those companies trying to establish a foothold in the market. Starting in Q2 2007, when the replicator for most adult companies gets its own mastering equipment, there could be a lot of titles available.
We were initially going Blu-Ray because of Sony’s Hollywood and CE commitments, but the cost differences in hardware and most importantly, disk replication, combined with good HD DVD and bad Blu-Ray buzz changed our decision to releasing only on HD DVD. Right now, it looks like most of the adult industry will go the same way.
There is a significant market for adult. If adult buyers purchase HD DVD players because that’s where the initial content is, it could end up being a closed loop of disks/players/more disks. With small production runs, it’s not profitable to release in two formats and Blu-Ray could lose the adult buyers forever. Like what we do or not, adult sells a lot of DVDs and has committed customers.
Adult was a player in the VHS/Beta battle. No question adult led in every commerce application on the web. It is not out of the realm of possibility we will have an effect in HD.
Would more people only buy Blu-Ray because they want to watch Lawrence of Arabia or would more people only buy HD DVD because they want to watch porn? I'd guess the latter.
I’m the HD project manager for the largest US adult catalog and think “adult” could influence the format battle.
There will be several bigger budget HD DVD XXX titles out before the end of the year, probably as early as next month, from at least 2 studios and probably more.
The major adult companies have been shooting in HD for a couple years. The problem right now is mastering costs are too expensive when average adult titles sell only 2-5,000 units. This year, HD will be for those companies trying to establish a foothold in the market. Starting in Q2 2007, when the replicator for most adult companies gets its own mastering equipment, there could be a lot of titles available.
We were initially going Blu-Ray because of Sony’s Hollywood and CE commitments, but the cost differences in hardware and most importantly, disk replication, combined with good HD DVD and bad Blu-Ray buzz changed our decision to releasing only on HD DVD. Right now, it looks like most of the adult industry will go the same way.
There is a significant market for adult. If adult buyers purchase HD DVD players because that’s where the initial content is, it could end up being a closed loop of disks/players/more disks. With small production runs, it’s not profitable to release in two formats and Blu-Ray could lose the adult buyers forever. Like what we do or not, adult sells a lot of DVDs and has committed customers.
Adult was a player in the VHS/Beta battle. No question adult led in every commerce application on the web. It is not out of the realm of possibility we will have an effect in HD.
Would more people only buy Blu-Ray because they want to watch Lawrence of Arabia or would more people only buy HD DVD because they want to watch porn? I'd guess the latter.