In a move that could swing the next-gen disc format war further towards the Xbox 360-supported format, the adult movie industry seems to have settled on HD DVD with regards to the production and distribution of next-gen high definition smut.
According to reports from the Adult Industry Exhibition in Las Vegas, all the major adult movie studios have standardised on HD DVD, citing lower costs of production as the key driver.
However, there are suggestions that Sony has actually forced the adult industry’s hand over to HD DVD by putting pressure on manufacturers to reject pornographic content.
Apparently, the founder of Digital Playground (one of the larger studios, supposedly, we wouldn’t know, obviously...) told a German magazine that he originally planned to go with Blu-ray as the discs are larger, but manufacturers wouldn’t accept the content, citing fears that Sony would cancel the production license of anyone who produced pornographic content.
Which many are seeing as an odd move – the adult industry’s adoption of the VHS format in the ’80s video format war was seen as a key driver for the format and instrumental in its eventual victory over Sony’s technically superior Betamax format.
Still, this could mean two things:
1. You’ll be able to watch hi-def porn on your Xbox 360 HD DVD drive. Not that you’d want to, of course.
2. HD DVD is now even more likely to win the next-gen format war, spelling bad news for the PlayStation 3’s expensive, in-built Blu-ray drive which will become redundant and drag the console down with its high cost, as people flock to buy the Xbox 360 plus HD DVD player. Probably.
And people say porn is evil...
