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In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real - New York Times
by Mike the Usurper at 3:59 am EST, Jan 22, 2007

The pornographers’ progress with HD may also be somewhat slowed by Sony, one of the main backers of the Blu-ray high-definition disc format. Sony said last week that, in keeping with a longstanding policy, it would not mass-produce pornographic videos on behalf of the movie makers.

And Sony shoots thenselves in the ass again. It may not be everyone, but there is a large segment of the population that buys porn (see the $3.6 BILLION figure noted a few paragraphs later) and those are people who won't get Blu-ray, they'll get HD-DVD. Sont lost the VHS-Beta war by forcing a proprietary format on companies that didn't want one. They're positioned better to try it this time by owning their own movie studio, but I don't think that's enough to cover both people who don't want to adopt Sony's rules for publishing and losing the porn business.

Beta was by far a better technology, the resolution in 1975 was better than DVD is now, but they lost, badly. They made the same mistake with their "memory stick" mess, seemed to get it right with the PS1 and PS2, but they're back to their original screw up again here.


 
RE: In Raw World of Sex Movies, High Definition Could Be a View Too Real - New York Times
by Decius at 4:16 am EST, Jan 22, 2007

Mike the Usurper wrote:
And Sony shoots thenselves in the ass again.

I think you're probably right. This is usually a bad decision. However, right now the biggest installed base for their format is playstations. They don't want to create the perception that people are making porn for a video game system marketed at children. This perception doesn't have to be reasonable for it to blow up in their face. Hillary Clinton and Joe Leiberman were on the war path recently because you could get a memory editor and interface it with your playstation and access a section of Grand Theft Auto in which fully clothed block animations have sex. The fact that there are easier ways for kids to get access to pornography doesn't seem to have mattered to the morass of protestors, and I'm sure that Rock Star and Sony spent a fair amount of money dealing with the incident.


 
 
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