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Aaron McKenna

January 11, 2007 12:39

Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between the adult and tech industries - porn has a tendency to drive, and be driven, by technology. Which means HD DVD when it comes to high-def.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/v4gfz

Porn industry goes with HD DVD, this war is over, lol...

I am told it costs about $3 million to set up a Blu-ray replication line and about $100,000 to do the same with HD-DVD. If you are projected to sell a million copies, guess which one is economically viable? This is a major hurdle and adds a non-trivial amount to the cost of the disks.

One other thing to keep rattling around in the back of your head is that HD is backwards compatible while Blu is not. You can burn an HD movie on a DVD-9 if you can fit it on, and use the exact same mastering components you use on a normal DVD, With Blu, you are stuck.

Related article: http://tinyurl.com/yzv4ff