[Scotracer]

Originally Posted by Grindstone

WRONG! This format war just got a little more complicated:

Slashdot | Adult Film Industry Chooses HD-DVD

Blu-Ray has officially snubbed the porn industry. HD-DVD is welcoming it with open arms (among other things). Now you could argue that the porn industry does not need Blu-Ray nor HD-DVD as online is the way to go. However, last year, just over $24 billion was spent on Dvds, and under $5 billion of that was attributed to porn.

Also, although it can be downloaded, you're still eating up lots of gigs to do so, but even still, not all porn advocates are internet literate (gasp!). Nonetheless, you can not dismiss the fact that those who bought an HDtv do not want to watch porn in high definition. And since that porn will not becoming to their HDtv via Blu-Ray, you can bet it'll keep HD-DVD around for a long time.

It's VHS v. Beta all over again.

Hmm, the porn industry was indicating it's approval for Blu-ray but if it's benefactors don't want it...all the better for HD DVD.

I honestly don't care which wins but there are more Blu-ray players on the market than HD DVD and there are more Blu-ray releases for this coming year. Also, 96% of the HD market in Japan is Blu-ray...this all points in Blu-rays favour.

On-demand is the way forward for pornography and most media services so I doubt the porn industry going for HD DVD being that big a parameter in the battle for optical formats as internet connections are improving day after day.

Even if the PS3 sells 50% of what the PS2 did, that's still 50 million Blu-ray players (which is also the best one available, according to reviews) in consumers homes. Right now there are around 1 million PS3's sold and there are only 92k HD DVD add-ons sold. Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD by a massive amount already even with it's higher price point and fewer movies. And think, the PS3 hasn't even been released in the biggest market yet...