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Porn company protects name of Blu-ray partner

Vivid Entertainment will not name the company it is partnered with to produce porn titles on Blu-ray. There are 8 companies worldwide that replicate Blu-ray discs, two controlled by Sony which has already stated it will not work with the adult entertainment industry. Five more of the companies have contracts to produce for Disney, and such are not able to work closely with any porn company.

This only leaves one more and Vivid co-chairman, Steven Hirsch, said the company will not name the partner and give rivals easy access to a company that was hard to find. Vivid is the only company in the adult industry that is actually going to use Blu-ray Disc, with everyone else opting to use the HD DVD format instead.



Vivid will release several titles on Blu-ray and monitor the sales, specifically against sales of porn in the HD DVD format. If sales are not strong enough, the company may abandon the format due to its high costs. "Blu-ray is extremely expensive to work with," said Hirsch. Authoring in Blu-ray is four times more expensive than HD DVD and three times more expensive than replicating HD DVD.

Source:
Digital Online

Written by: James Delahunty @ 3 Feb 2007 18:51

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• 16 comments

• c.trigger

  p0rn+ps3 play with both your joysticks

  3.2.2007 19:48 #1

• xhardc0re

  if i posted that comment i'd be going straight to Hell but...
  
  in the past few weeks i've been seeing a lot of news stories with Blu-ray and pr0n in them. Searching Google on those two terms gives over 1 million hits. Could this be a conspiracy by $ony to speed adoption of the new standard??? :)
  
  Only time will tell
  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Blu-ray+%22porn%22&btnG=Search

  3.2.2007 20:37 #2

• mspurloc

  LaserDisc, Closed Format - DEAD
  Betamax, Closed Format - DEAD
  BluRay, Closed Format - DEAD

  3.2.2007 20:38 #3

• xhardc0re

  I'm dying to hear which company is #8 on that list. If not $ony (2 companies) or Disney-related (5 companies) then it must be company #8. Is my thinking flawed or could it be........i'll let you Google it for yourself ;)

  3.2.2007 20:51 #4

• hade

  here is an interesting video on HD
  
  Video

  3.2.2007 21:22 #5

• Auslander

  at least the future of porn is secure. that's all that matters to me. >.>

  3.2.2007 21:24 #6

• cleverick

  AAAWWW SKEET SKEET SKEET!!!

  3.2.2007 22:06 #7

• b18bek9

  well to tell u the truth blu ray for the past months i;ve seen alot of ppl sayin they have problems with the format but i'm going for hd-dvd's not blu ray but blu ray is gonna be pushed on us either way so oh well.....

  4.2.2007 00:50 #8

• xhardc0re

  Steve Hirsch is the next Kaz Hirai
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaz_Hirai
  
  Riiiiiiiidge Raaacer
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBUeINW_3s
  
  
  Jennnnaaaaa Jammmmeesooooooon
  
  LOLz

  4.2.2007 01:45 #9

• BigDK

  70" HD TV's with H-Def Porn fed from Blue-Ray.
  
  Now that sounds like a TV has finally found it's purpose in life!
  Beats watching EastEnders!!!

  4.2.2007 03:37 #10

• borhan9

  Quote:p0rn+ps3 play with both your joysticksLOL!!!
  
  Intresting article. I say leavr them alone and let them get down to busines ;)

  4.2.2007 14:57 #11

• hughjars

  Is someone trying to say PS3's are for w*nkers?! 8O

  4.2.2007 15:30 #12

• alphabit

  Sony should welcome the porn industry with open arms in their struggle with HD DVD . As the adult entertainment industry was largly the deciding factor in the Beta vs.VHS format war. Ah yes if you dont learn from your old mistakes how prone you are to repeat them!!

  4.2.2007 18:37 #13

• deesy32

  bottom line is the formate that embrase the porn industry is the company that wins porn is a multi billion dollar a year industry and cannot be ignored

  5.2.2007 07:06 #14

• solarf

  Porn is going to decide the winner in war? ewww why is this Hddvd so sticky?? :P

  5.2.2007 08:04 #15

• RNR1995

  People are dumbasses, the PORN industry is why we do not have a betamax (superior video quality over VHS) they went VHS because it WAS CHEAPER! Now Sony is shooting the whole industry in the foot again. FU SONY! I would NEVER BUY ANOTHER SONY PRODUCT EVER SINCE THE ROOTKIT FIASCO! FU SONY! Yes PORN is so bad that's why it makes BILLIONS every year! PA LEASE!

  10.2.2007 05:37 #16