Missing the Point on Porn (Oh Yeah, and Blu-ray too)
In a recent article in MacWorld about the porn industry adopting Blu-Ray over HD-DVD, Steve Duplessie of the Enterprise Strategy Group makes a bad mistake:
I love the whole pornography concept simply because porn is still the number one money-making use of the Internet. But I don’t believe the porn industry will drive the format. Like any other industry, it will supply what the consumer wants
Here’s his mistake. The end-viewer doesn’t want Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. They want really impressive, high-definition money shots. They couldn’t care less whether they watch them on Blu-ray or HD-DVD. Most end-viewers don’t know or care about the difference between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. I’m a pretty serious techie, and a minor videophile, and I couldn’t tell you the difference without Googling it.
In this case, the consumers that matter are the porn producers (and the major movie studios, but the pornographers will get there first). The producers will decide what they want and buy that. The end-viewers will look at the content they want, and buy the player that plays it. Simple as that.
May 3rd, 2006 at 4:53 PM
If the porn industry doesn’t drive the format it will be about the first time in recent memory. I know if *I* wanted to push my format on the world I would give away for free to the pornographers. I’d send them production equipment in advance of the market.
May 4th, 2006 at 6:36 AM
One vital difference you should be aware of as a Java nerd is that the Blu-ray machines come with a built-in JVM, and the HD-DVD things have some stupid MS-designed XML format as a rough alternative. Imagine if every DVD player in 5-10 years has a built-in JVM? Talk about job security! Maybe porn viewers don’t care which one they get, but all of us should!